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physics.ins-det2023★ 1 cited

Radiopurity of NaI(Tl) crystals for PICOLON dark matter experiment

K. Kotera, D. Chernyak, H. Ejiri +19

The dark matter observation claim by the DAMA/LIBRA collaboration has been a long-standing puzzle within the particle physics community. Efforts of other research groups to verify…

hep-ex2023

Measurement of cosmic-ray muon spallation products in a xenon-loaded liquid scintillator with KamLAND

Zen Collaboration, S. Abe, S. Asami +63

Cosmic-ray muons produce various radioisotopes when passing through material. These spallation products can be backgrounds for rare event searches such as in solar neutrino, double…

hep-ex2022★ 15 cited

First measurement of the strange axial coupling constant using neutral-current quasielastic interactions of atmospheric neutrinos at KamLAND

KamLAND Collaboration, S. Abe, S. Asami +61

We report a measurement of the strange axial coupling constant using atmospheric neutrino data at KamLAND. This constant is a component of the axial form factor of the neut…

physics.geo-ph2022★ 27 cited

Abundances of uranium and thorium elements in Earth estimated by geoneutrino spectroscopy

S. Abe, S. Asami, M. Eizuka +64

The decay of the primordial isotopes , , , and have contributed to the terrestrial heat budget throughout t…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 6 cited

Search for supernova neutrinos and constraint on the galactic star formation rate with the KamLAND data

S. Abe, S. Asami, M. Eizuka +63

We present the results of a search for core-collapse supernova neutrinos, using long-term KamLAND data from 2002 March 9 to 2020 April 25. We focus on the electron antineutrinos em…

hep-ex2022★ 243 cited

Search for the Majorana Nature of Neutrinos in the Inverted Mass Ordering Region with KamLAND-Zen

Zen Collaboration, S. Abe, S. Asami +70

The KamLAND-Zen experiment has provided stringent constraints on the neutrinoless double-beta () decay half-life in Xe using a xenon-loaded liquid scintillator. We re…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 1 cited

KamLAND's search for correlated low-energy electron antineutrinos with astrophysical neutrinos from IceCube

S. Abe, S. Asami, M. Eizuka +66

We report the results of a search for MeV-scale astrophysical neutrinos in KamLAND presented as an excess in the number of coincident neutrino interactions associated with the publ…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 4 cited

A search for correlated low-energy electron antineutrinos in KamLAND with gamma-ray bursts

S. Abe, S. Asami, A. Gando +64

We present the results of a time-coincident event search for low-energy electron antineutrinos in the KamLAND detector with gamma-ray bursts from the Gamma-ray Coordinates Network…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 44 cited

Limits on astrophysical antineutrinos with the KamLAND experiment

S. Abe, S. Asami, A. Gando +66

We report on a search for electron antineutrinos () from astrophysical sources in the neutrino energy range 8.3 to 30.8 MeV with the KamLAND detector. In an exposure of 6.…

astro-ph.SR2021

Search for Solar Flare Neutrinos with the KamLAND detector

S. Abe, S. Asami, A. Gando +65

We report the result of a search for neutrinos in coincidence with solar flares from the GOES flare database. The search was performed on a 10.8 kton-year exposure of KamLAND colle…

hep-ex2021★ 1 cited

A Search for Charged Excitation of Dark Matter with the KamLAND-Zen Detector

S. Abe, S. Asami, A. Gando +68

There are many theories where a dark matter particle is part of a multiplet with an electrically charged state. If WIMP dark matter () is accompanied by a charged excited st…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 19 cited

Search for Low-energy Electron Antineutrinos in KamLAND Associated with Gravitational Wave Events

S. Abe, S. Asami, A. Gando +65

We present the results of a search for MeV-scale electron antineutrino events in KamLAND in coincident with the 60 gravitational wave events/candidates reported by the LIGO/Virgo c…

physics.ins-det2019★ 10 cited

AXEL: High-pressure Xe gas TPC for BG-free decay search

S. Obara, S. Ban, M. Hirose +15

AXEL is a high-pressure xenon gas time projection chamber for neutrinoless double-beta decay (0n2b) search. The AXEL has a unique readout system called ELCC which has a cellular st…

hep-ex2019★ 73 cited

Precision Analysis of the Xe Two-Neutrino Spectrum in KamLAND-Zen and Its Impact on the Quenching of Nuclear Matrix Elements

Zen Collaboration

We present a precision analysis of the Xe two-neutrino electron spectrum above 0.8 MeV, based on high-statistics data obtained with the KamLAND-Zen experiment. An impr…

hep-ex2016★ 980 cited

Search for Majorana Neutrinos near the Inverted Mass Hierarchy Region with KamLAND-Zen

Zen Collaboration

We present an improved search for neutrinoless double-beta () decay of Xe in the KamLAND-Zen experiment. Owing to purification of the xenon-loaded liquid scintillator…

physics.ins-det2013★ 11 cited

CeLAND: search for a 4th light neutrino state with a 3 PBq 144Ce-144Pr electron antineutrino generator in KamLAND

A. Gando, Y. Gando, S. Hayashida +63

The reactor neutrino and gallium anomalies can be tested with a 3-4 PBq (75-100 kCi scale) 144Ce-144Pr antineutrino beta-source deployed at the center or next to a large low-backgr…

hep-ex2013★ 3 cited

White paper: CeLAND - Investigation of the reactor antineutrino anomaly with an intense 144Ce-144Pr antineutrino source in KamLAND

A. Gando, Y. Gando, S. Hayashida +57

We propose to test for short baseline neutrino oscillations, implied by the recent reevaluation of the reactor antineutrino flux and by anomalous results from the gallium solar neu…

hep-ex2002★ 2.7k cited

First Results from KamLAND: Evidence for Reactor Anti-Neutrino Disappearance

KamLAND Collaboration

KamLAND has been used to measure the flux of 's from distant nuclear reactors. In an exposure of 162 tonyr (145.1 days) the ratio of the number of observed inverse…