Publications [#362513] of Kate Scholberg

Papers Published
  1. Abe, K; Bronner, C; Hayato, Y; Ikeda, M; Imaizumi, S; Ito, H; Kameda, J; Kataoka, Y; Miura, M; Moriyama, S; Nagao, Y; Nakahata, M; Nakajima, Y; Nakayama, S; Okada, T; Okamoto, K; Orii, A; Pronost, G; Sekiya, H; Shiozawa, M; Sonoda, Y; Suzuki, Y; Takeda, A; Takemoto, Y; Takenaka, A; Tanaka, H; Yano, T; Akutsu, R; Han, S; Kajita, T; Okumura, K; Tashiro, T; Wang, R; Xia, J; Bravo-Berguño, D; Labarga, L; Marti, L; Zaldivar, B; Blaszczyk, FDM; Kearns, E; Raaf, JL; Stone, JL; Wan, L; Wester, T; Pointon, BW; Bian, J; Griskevich, NJ; Kropp, WR; Locke, S; Mine, S; Smy, MB; Sobel, HW; Takhistov, V; Weatherly, P; Hill, J; Kim, JY; Lim, IT; Park, RG; Bodur, B; Scholberg, K; Walter, CW; Bernard, L; Coffani, A; Drapier, O; Hedri, SE; Giampaolo, A; Gonin, M; Mueller, TA; Paganini, P; Quilain, B; Ishizuka, T; Nakamura, T; Jang, JS; Learned, JG; Anthony, LHV; Sztuc, AA; Uchida, Y; Berardi, V; Catanesi, MG; Radicioni, E; Calabria, NF; Machado, LN; De Rosa, G; Collazuol, G; Iacob, F; Lamoureux, M; Ospina, N; Ludovici, L; Nishimura, Y; Cao, S; Friend, M; Hasegawa, T; Ishida, T; Jakkapu, M; Kobayashi, T; Matsubara, T; Nakadaira, T; Nakamura, K; Oyama, Y; Sakashita, K, Search for solar electron anti-neutrinos due to spin-flavor precession in the Sun with Super-Kamiokande-IV, Astroparticle Physics, vol. 139 (June, 2022), pp. 102702-102702, Elsevier BV [doi] .

    Abstract:
    Due to a very low production rate of electron anti-neutrinos (ν̄e) via nuclear fusion in the Sun, a flux of solar ν̄e is unexpected. An appearance of ν̄e in solar neutrino flux opens a new window for the new physics beyond the standard model. In particular, a spin-flavor precession process is expected to convert an electron neutrino into an electron anti-neutrino (νe→ν̄e) when neutrino has a finite magnetic moment. In this work, we have searched for solar ν̄e in the Super-Kamiokande experiment, using neutron tagging to identify their inverse beta decay signature. We identified 78 ν̄e candidates for neutrino energies of 9.3 to 17.3 MeV in 2970.1 live days with a fiducial volume of 22.5 kiloton water (183.0 kton⋅year exposure). The energy spectrum has been consistent with background predictions and we thus derived a 90% confidence level upper limit of 4.7×10−4 on the νe→ν̄e conversion probability in the Sun. We used this result to evaluate the sensitivity of future experiments, notably the Super-Kamiokande Gadolinium (SK-Gd) upgrade.

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