1. Supernova Relic Neutrino search with neutron tagging at Super-Kamiokande-IV
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Y. Takeuchi, T.S. Tanaka, K. Nishikawa, C. Yanagisawa, A. T. Suzuki, K. Nishijima, L. R. Sulak, Hirokazu Ishino, Takaaki Kajita, J. F. Martin, Yuichi Oyama, R. A. Wendell, T. Nakadaira, P. dePerio, M. B. Smy, H. W. Sobel, Koh Ueno, Atsushi Takeda, A. Konaka, Yusuke Koshio, Makoto Sakuda, Y. Nishimura, Takaaki Mori, Shigeki Tasaka, J. L. Stone, Y. Hayato, S. Nakayama, J. L. Raaf, R. Tacik, R. Yamaguchi, K. Nakamura, I. Taylor, C. K. Jung, G. Carminati, K. Abe, A. Minamino, T. Tomura, A. Murakami, C. W. Walter, T. Yokozawa, H. Okazawa, K. Iyogi, John Hill, S. Moriyama, M. Ikeda, T. Yano, Masato Shiozawa, Y. Choi, Masayuki Nakahata, G. Mitsuka, A. L. Renshaw, T. Tsukamoto, K. Sakashita, K. P. Lee, Joshua Hignight, I. T. Lim, L. Labarga, T. Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Sekiya, K. Choi, Y. Totsuka, Susumu Takahashi, M. J. Wilking, Kimihiro Okumura, Y. Fukuda, K. Kaneyuki, T. Wongjirad, M. Koshiba, T. Ishida, M. Vagins, M. Goldhaber, T. Sekiguchi, W. E. Keig, S. Matsuno, Yejin Zhang, K. Bays, H. Kaji, H. Sui, Song Chen, J. Kameda, Yuuki Nakano, S. N. Smith, Yoshitaka Itow, Yasunari Suzuki, Y. Kuno, P. Mijakowski, H. Kikawa, J. G. Learned, W. R. Kropp, S. Tobayama, Zishuo Yang, Kate Scholberg, M. Dziomba, Kazuhiro Suzuki, H. Zhang, T. McLachlan, Ll. Marti, E. Kearns, S. Barkman, K. Martens, S. Mine, K. S. Ganezer, Masashi Yokoyama, S. B. Kim, J. Y. Kim, K. Huang, A. Kibayashi, K. Ieki, R. J. Wilkes, T. Ishii, T. Ishizuka, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, T. Akiri, T. Hasegawa, Yasuhiro Kishimoto, Y. Takenaga, M. Miura, J. S. Jang, K. Connolly, and J. Imber
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Physics ,Particle physics ,Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Photon energy ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Nuclear physics ,Supernova ,Neutron capture ,Neutron ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Experimental methods ,Neutrino ,Super-Kamiokande ,Nuclear Experiment ,Charged current - Abstract
A search for Supernova Relic Neutrinos $\bar{\nu}_e$'s is first conducted via inverse-beta-decay by tagging neutron capture on hydrogen at Super-Kamiokande-IV. The neutron tagging efficiency is determined to be $(17.74\pm0.04_{stat.}\pm1.05_{sys.})%$, while the corresponding accidental background probability is $(1.06\pm0.01_{stat.}\pm 0.18_{sys.})$%. Using 960 days of data, we obtain 13 inverse-beta-decay candidates in the range of $E_{\bar{\nu}_e}$ between 13.3 MeV and 31.3 MeV. All of the observed candidates are attributed to background. Upper limits at 90% C.L. are calculated in the absence of a signal., Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures
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- 2015
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