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hep-ex2023★ 46 cited

Solar neutrino measurements using the full data period of Super-Kamiokande-IV

Kamiokande Collaboration, K. Abe, C. Bronner +322

An analysis of solar neutrino data from the fourth phase of Super-Kamiokande~(SK-IV) from October 2008 to May 2018 is performed and the results are presented. The observation time…

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★ 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-ex2020★ 39 cited

Indirect Search for Dark Matter from the Galactic Center and Halo with the Super-Kamiokande Detector

Kamiokande Collaboration, K. Abe, C. Bronner +269

We present a search for an excess of neutrino interactions due to dark matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) annihilating in the galactic center or hal…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 38 cited

Sensitivity of Super-Kamiokande with Gadolinium to Low Energy Anti-neutrinos from Pre-supernova Emission

C. Simpson, K. Abe, C. Bronner +186

Supernova detection is a major objective of the Super-Kamiokande (SK) experiment. In the next stage of SK (SK-Gd), gadolinium (Gd) sulfate will be added to the detector, which will…

hep-ex2019★ 23 cited

Measurement of the muon neutrino charged-current single production on hydrocarbon using the T2K off-axis near detector ND280

K. Abe, R. Akutsu, A. Ali +378

We report the measurements of single and double differential cross section of muon neutrino charged-current interactions on carbon with a single positively charged pion in the fina…

hep-ex2019★ 10 cited

Measurement of the charged-current cross sections on water, hydrocarbon, iron, and their ratios with the T2K on-axis detectors

K. Abe, R. Akutsu, A. Ali +314

We report a measurement of the flux-integrated charged-current cross sections on water, hydrocarbon, and iron in the T2K on-axis neutrino beam with a mean neutrino energy of…

physics.ins-det2019

The ENUBET narrow band neutrino beam

ENUBET Collaboration, M. Tenti, F. Acerbi +54

The narrow band beam of ENUBET is the first implementation of the "monitored neutrino beam" technique proposed in 2015. ENUBET has been designed to monitor lepton production in the…

physics.acc-ph2019

The ENUBET Beamline

ENUBET Collaboration, G. Brunetti, F. Acerbi +56

The ENUBET ERC project (2016-2021) is studying a narrow band neutrino beam where lepton production can be monitored at single particle level in an instrumented decay tunnel. This w…

hep-ex2019★ 23 cited

Search for neutral-current induced single photon production at the ND280 near detector in T2K

K. Abe, R. Akutsu, A. Ali +314

Neutrino neutral-current induced single photon production is a sub-leading order process for accelerator-based neutrino beam experiments including T2K. It is, however, an important…

hep-ex2019★ 105 cited

Search for heavy neutrinos with the T2K near detector ND280

K. Abe, R. Akutsu, A. Ali +325

This paper reports on the search for heavy neutrinos with masses in the range MeV/c using the off-axis near detector ND280 of the T2K experiment. These partic…

hep-ex2019★ 40 cited

Search for light sterile neutrinos with the T2K far detector Super-Kamiokande at a baseline of 295 km

K. Abe, R. Akutsu, A. Ali +318

We perform a search for light sterile neutrinos using the data from the T2K far detector at a baseline of 295 km, with an exposure of 14.7 (7.6) protons on target i…

physics.ins-det2019★ 17 cited

Irradiation and performance of RGB-HD Silicon Photomultipliers for calorimetric applications

F. Acerbi, G. Ballerini, A. Berra +41

Silicon Photomultipliers with cell-pitch ranging from 12 m to 20 m were tested against neutron irradiation at moderate fluences to study their performance for calorimetric ap…

hep-ex2019★ 25 cited

Measurement of neutrino-oxygen neutral-current quasi-elastic cross section using atmospheric neutrinos at Super-Kamiokande

Kamiokande Collaboration, L. Wan, K. Abe +164

Neutral current (NC) interactions of atmospheric neutrinos on oxygen form one of the major backgrounds in the search for supernova relic neutrinos with water-based Cherenkov detect…

physics.ins-det2019

A high precision neutrino beam for a new generation of short baseline experiments

F. Acerbi, G. Ballerini, S. Bolognesi +53

The current generation of short baseline neutrino experiments is approaching intrinsic source limitations in the knowledge of flux, initial neutrino energy and flavor. A dedicated…

hep-ex2019★ 79 cited

Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation Analysis With Improved Event Reconstruction in Super-Kamiokande IV

Kamiokande Collaboration, M. Jiang, K. Abe +167

A new event reconstruction algorithm based on a maximum likelihood method has been developed for Super-Kamiokande. Its improved kinematic and particle identification capabilities e…

physics.ins-det2019★ 78 cited

T2K ND280 Upgrade -- Technical Design Report

K. Abe, H. Aihara, A. Ajmi +380

In this document, we present the Technical Design Report of the Upgrade of the T2K Near Detector ND280. The goal of this upgrade is to improve the Near Detector performance to meas…

physics.ins-det2018★ 6 cited

Shashlik calorimeters: novel compact prototypes for the ENUBET experiment

M. Pari, G. Ballerini, A. Berra +50

We summarize in this paper the detector R&D performed in the framework of the ERC ENUBET Project. We discuss in particular the latest results on longitudinally segmented shashlik c…

hep-ex2018★ 13 cited

Dinucleon and Nucleon Decay to Two-Body Final States with no Hadrons in Super-Kamiokande

Kamiokande Collaboration, S. Sussman, K. Abe +167

Using 0.37 megatonyears of exposure from the Super-Kamiokande detector, we search for 10 dinucleon and nucleon decay modes that have a two-body final state with no hadrons.…

hep-ex2018★ 195 cited

Search for CP violation in Neutrino and Antineutrino Oscillations by the T2K experiment with protons on target

K. Abe, R. Akutsu, A. Ali +319

The T2K experiment measures muon neutrino disappearance and electron neutrino appearance in accelerator-produced neutrino and antineutrino beams. With an exposure of $14.7(7.6)\tim…

physics.ins-det2018★ 417 cited

Hyper-Kamiokande Design Report

Hyper-Kamiokande Proto-Collaboration, :, K. Abe +313

On the strength of a double Nobel prize winning experiment (Super)Kamiokande and an extremely successful long baseline neutrino programme, the third generation Water Cherenkov dete…

physics.ins-det2018

A narrow band neutrino beam with high precision flux measurements

A. Coffani, G. Ballerini, A. Berra +49

The ENUBET facility is a proposed narrow band neutrino beam where lepton production is monitored at single particle level in the instrumented decay tunnel. This facility addresses…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 37 cited

Search for Neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande associated with the GW170817 neutron-star merger

K. Abe, C. Bronner, Y. Hayato +160

We report the results of a neutrino search in Super-Kamiokande for coincident signals with the first detected gravitational wave produced by a binary neutron star merger, GW170817,…

hep-ex2018★ 34 cited

Measurement of inclusive double-differential charged-current cross section with improved acceptance in the T2K off-axis near detector

T2K Collaboration, K. Abe, J. Amey +302

We report a measurement of the flux-integrated cross section for inclusive muon neutrino charged-current interactions on carbon. The double differential measurements are given as f…