1. Search for Proton Decay throughp→ν¯K+in a Large Water Cherenkov Detector
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C. W. Walter, C. Mauger, M. Koshiba, A. Okada, T. Kobayashi, Y. Hatakeyama, K. Nakamura, John G. Learned, T. Futagami, M. R. Vagins, Ko Okumura, J. Hill, V. J. Stenger, S. Kasuga, Y. Fukuda, Yuichi Oyama, G. W. Sullivan, T. Hayakawa, Ken-ichiro Kobayashi, A. T. Suzuki, Masayuki Nakahata, F. Tsushima, Akira Hasegawa, Y. Takeuchi, K. Ishihara, David William Casper, Makoto Sakuda, Kunio Inoue, S. Mine, A. Sakai, Nobuyuki Sakurai, L. R. Price, J. Shirai, Yoshitaka Itow, K. Martens, M. Kirisawa, Hiroshi Ogawa, J. S. George, Y. Kanaya, K. Nishikawa, M. Koike, H. W. Sobel, Yasunari Suzuki, M. Nemoto, J. L. Stone, K. Higuchi, Shigeki Tasaka, E. Sharkey, J. Kameda, S. Hatakeyama, Osamu Sasaki, Takehisa Hasegawa, Y. Watanabe, L. R. Sulak, R. Sanford, S. Inaba, M. B. Smy, Takaaki Kajita, H. Ishino, J. A. Goodman, Kazumasa Miyano, D. Takemori, M. Takahata, Y. Kobayashi, E. Blaufuss, S. Nakayama, K. Kaneyuki, C. Saji, M. Etoh, W. Doki, H. Okazawa, K. S. Ganezer, W. Gajewski, Kate Scholberg, D. Kielczewska, Y. Totsuka, C. McGrew, M. Earl, T. Ishii, Alec Habig, H. Fujiyasu, S. Matsuno, M. Koga, Minoru Yoshida, L. Wai, Tomoyuki Maruyama, T. J. Haines, Y. Obayashi, M. Takita, M. Miura, Takashi Yamaguchi, B. Viren, M. Takahashi, W. R. Kropp, S. Yamada, M. D. Messier, S. Echigo, R. J. Wilkes, K. K. Young, C. Yanagisawa, K. Nishijima, R. W. Ellsworth, A. Kibayashi, Y. Nagashima, H. Takeuchi, B. K. Kim, W. E. Keig, M. L. Chen, M. Goldhaber, Y. Hayato, T. Iwamoto, Yusuke Koshio, S. B. Kim, A. L. Stachyra, M. Kohama, C. K. Jung, Masato Shiozawa, T. Barszczak, E. Kearns, A. Suzuki, R. Svoboda, and Junichi Kanzaki
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Nuclear physics ,Physics ,Particle physics ,Proton ,Proton decay ,Cherenkov detector ,law ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,General Physics and Astronomy ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Neutrino ,Lower limit ,law.invention - Abstract
We present results of a search for proton decays, $p\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\overline{\ensuremath{\nu}}{K}^{+}$, using data from a $33\mathrm{kt}\ifmmode \dot{}\else \.{}\fi{}\mathrm{yr}$ exposure of the Super-Kamiokande detector. Two decay modes of the kaon, ${K}^{+}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\ensuremath{\mu}}^{+}{\ensuremath{\nu}}_{\ensuremath{\mu}}$ and ${K}^{+}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{+}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{0}$, were studied. The data were consistent with the background expected from atmospheric neutrinos; therefore a lower limit on the partial lifetime of the proton $\ensuremath{\tau}/B(p\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\overline{\ensuremath{\nu}}{K}^{+})$ was found to be $6.7\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{32}\mathrm{years}$ at $90%$ confidence level.
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- 1999
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