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most citedIndication of Electron Neutrino Appearance from an Accelerator-produced Off-axis Muon Neutrino Beam

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112 papers

hep-ex2026

Construction, commissioning, and performance of the ENUBET demonstrator

F. Acerbi, I. Angelis, L. Bomben +74

A final full-size prototype of the instrumented decay tunnel of ENUBET, referred to as the Demonstrator, was constructed and its performance was tested during the 2022, 2023 and 20…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 3 cited

Development of a data overflow protection system for Super-Kamiokande to maximize data from nearby supernovae

M. Mori, K. Abe, Y. Hayato +252

Neutrinos from very nearby supernovae, such as Betelgeuse, are expected to generate more than ten million events over 10\,s in Super-Kamokande (SK). At such large event rates, the…

hep-ex2023

Search for Periodic Time Variations of the Solar B Neutrino Flux between 1996 and 2018 in Super-Kamiokande

K. Abe, C. Bronner, Y. Hayato +233

We report a search for time variations of the solar B neutrino flux using 5804 live days of Super-Kamiokande data collected between May 31, 1996, and May 30, 2018. Super-Kamiok…

hep-ex2023

Design and performance of the ENUBET monitored neutrino beam

F. Acerbi, I. Angelis, L. Bomben +69

The ENUBET project is aimed at designing and experimentally demonstrating the concept of monitored neutrino beams. These novel beams are enhanced by an instrumented decay tunnel, w…

hep-ex2023★ 6 cited

Measurements of the and -induced Coherent Charged Pion Production Cross Sections on by the T2K experiment

K. Abe, N. Akhlaq, R. Akutsu +380

We report an updated measurement of the -induced, and the first measurement of the -induced coherent charged pion production cross section on nuclei in the T…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 52 cited

Search for astrophysical electron antineutrinos in Super-Kamiokande with 0.01wt% gadolinium-loaded water

M. Harada, K. Abe, C. Bronner +238

We report the first search result for the flux of astrophysical electron antineutrinos for energies O(10) MeV in the gadolinium-loaded Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector. In June 2020,…

hep-ex2023

Updated T2K measurements of muon neutrino and antineutrino disappearance using 3.6 10 protons on target

K. Abe, N. Akhlaq, R. Akutsu +406

Muon neutrino and antineutrino disappearance probabilities are identical in the standard three-flavor neutrino oscillation framework, but CPT violation and non-standard interaction…

hep-ex2023★ 17 cited

First measurement of muon neutrino charged-current interactions on hydrocarbon without pions in the final state using multiple detectors with correlated energy spectra at T2K

K. Abe, N. Akhlaq, R. Akutsu +401

This paper reports the first measurement of muon neutrino charged-current interactions without pions in the final state using multiple detectors with correlated energy spectra at T…

hep-ex2023★ 126 cited

Measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters from the T2K experiment using protons on target

The T2K Collaboration, K. Abe, N. Akhlaq +397

The T2K experiment presents new measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters using protons on target (POT) in (anti-)neutrino mode at the far detector…

hep-ex2022

Measurement of the cosmogenic neutron yield in Super-Kamiokande with gadolinium loaded water

Kamiokande Collaboration, M. Shinoki, K. Abe +238

Cosmic-ray muons that enter the Super-Kamiokande detector cause hadronic showers due to spallation in water, producing neutrons and radioactive isotopes. Those are a major backgrou…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 2 cited

Searching for neutrinos from solar flares across solar cycles 23 and 24 with the Super-Kamiokande detector

K. Okamoto, K. Abe, Y. Hayato +242

Neutrinos associated with solar flares (solar-flare neutrinos) provide information on particle acceleration mechanisms during the impulsive phase of solar flares. We searched using…

hep-ex2022★ 11 cited

Neutron Tagging following Atmospheric Neutrino Events in a Water Cherenkov Detector

K. Abe, Y. Haga, Y. Hayato +301

We present the development of neutron-tagging techniques in Super-Kamiokande IV using a neural network analysis. The detection efficiency of neutron capture on hydrogen is estimate…

hep-ex2022★ 41 cited

Search for Cosmic-ray Boosted Sub-GeV Dark Matter using Recoil Protons at Super-Kamiokande

Kamiokande Collaboration, K. Abe, Y. Hayato +218

We report a search for cosmic-ray boosted dark matter with protons using the 0.37 megatonyears data collected at Super-Kamiokande experiment during the 1996-2018 period (SK…

hep-ex2022

Search for proton decay via in 0.37 megaton-years exposure of Super-Kamiokande

Kamiokande Collaboration, R. Matsumoto, K. Abe +229

We searched for proton decay via in 0.37\,Mtonyears of data collected between 1996 and 2018 from the Super-Kamiokande water Cherenkov experiment. The selection…

physics.ins-det2022

Scintillator ageing of the T2K near detectors from 2010 to 2021

The T2K Collaboration, K. Abe, N. Akhlaq +355

The T2K experiment widely uses plastic scintillator as a target for neutrino interactions and an active medium for the measurement of charged particles produced in neutrino interac…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 18 cited

Search for supernova bursts in Super-Kamiokande IV

Kamiokande collaboration, M. Mori, K. Abe +242

Super-Kamiokande has been searching for neutrino bursts characteristic of core-collapse supernovae continuously, in real time, since the start of operations in 1996. The present wo…

hep-ex2022★ 16 cited

Pre-Supernova Alert System for Super-Kamiokande

Kamiokande Collaboration, L. N. Machado, K. Abe +223

In 2020, the Super-Kamiokande (SK) experiment moved to a new stage (SK-Gd) in which gadolinium (Gd) sulfate octahydrate was added to the water in the detector, enhancing the effici…

hep-ex2022★ 1 cited

Testing Non-Standard Interactions Between Solar Neutrinos and Quarks with Super-Kamiokande

Kamiokande Collaboration, P. Weatherly, K. Abe +268

Non-Standard Interactions (NSI) between neutrinos and matter affect the neutrino flavor oscillations. Due to the high matter density in the core of the Sun, solar neutrinos are sui…

hep-ex2021★ 6 cited

New Methods and Simulations for Cosmogenic Induced Spallation Removal in Super-Kamiokande-IV

Kamiokande Collaboration, S. Locke, A. Coffani +215

Radioactivity induced by cosmic muon spallation is a dominant source of backgrounds for MeV neutrino interactions in water Cherenkov detectors. In particular, it…

physics.ins-det2021★ 1 cited

First Gadolinium Loading to Super-Kamiokande

K. Abe, C. Bronner, Y. Hayato +212

In order to improve Super-Kamiokande's neutron detection efficiency and to thereby increase its sensitivity to the diffuse supernova neutrino background flux, 13 tons of $\rm Gd_2(…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 24 cited

Search for neutrinos in coincidence with gravitational wave events from the LIGO-Virgo O3a Observing Run with the Super-Kamiokande detector

Kamiokande collaboration, K. Abe, C. Bronner +209

The Super-Kamiokande detector can be used to search for neutrinos in time coincidence with gravitational waves detected by the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration (LVC). Both low-energy ($7-1…

hep-ex2021★ 117 cited

Improved constraints on neutrino mixing from the T2K experiment with protons on target

T2K Collaboration, K. Abe, N. Akhlaq +307

The T2K experiment reports updated measurements of neutrino and antineutrino oscillations using both appearance and disappearance channels. This result comes from an exposure of $1…

hep-ex2021★ 28 cited

First T2K measurement of transverse kinematic imbalance in the muon-neutrino charged-current single- production channel containing at least one proton

K. Abe, N. Akhlaq, R. Akutsu +308

This paper reports the first T2K measurement of the transverse kinematic imbalance in the single- production channel of neutrino interactions. We measure the differential cros…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 1 cited

Search for Tens of MeV Neutrinos associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts in Super-Kamiokande

Kamiokande Collaboration, A. Orii, K. Abe +216

A search for neutrinos produced in coincidence with Gamma-Ray Bursts(GRB) was conducted with the Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector. Between December 2008 and March 2017, the Gamma-ray…