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Sep 20, 2011

Search for n-nbar oscillation in Super-Kamiokande

Phys. Rev. D 91, 072006 (2015)
  • Super-Kamiokande collaboration
  • K. Abe
  • Y. Hayato
  • T. Iida
  • K. Ishihara
  • J. Kameda
  • Y. Koshio
  • A. Minamino
  • C. Mitsuda
  • M. Miura
  • S. Moriyama
  • M. Nakahata
  • Y. Obayashi
  • H. Ogawa
  • H. Sekiya
  • M. Shiozawa
  • Y. Suzuki
  • A. Takeda
  • Y. Takeuchi
  • K. Ueshima
  • H. Watanabe
  • I. Higuchi
  • C. Ishihara
  • M. Ishitsuka
  • T. Kajita
  • K. Kaneyuki
  • G. Mitsuka
  • S. Nakayama
  • H. Nishino
  • K. Okumura
  • C. Saji
  • Y. Takenaga
  • S. Clark
  • S. Desai
  • F. Dufour
  • A. Herfurth
  • E. Kearns
  • S. Likhoded
  • M. Litos
  • J. L. Raaf
  • J. L. Stone
  • L. R. Sulak
  • W. Wang
  • M. Goldhaber
  • D. Casper
  • J. P. Cravens
  • J. Dunmore
  • J. Griskevich
  • W. R. Kropp
  • D. W. Liu
  • S. Mine
  • C. Regis
  • M. B. Smy
  • H. W. Sobel
  • M. R. Vagins
  • K. S. Ganezer
  • B. Hartfiel
  • J. Hill
  • W. E. Keig
  • J. S. Jang
  • I. S. Jeoung
  • J. Y. Kim
  • I. T. Lim
  • K. Scholberg
  • N. Tanimoto
  • C. W. Walter
  • R. Wendell
  • R. W. Ellsworth
  • S. Tasaka
  • G. Guillian
  • J. G. Learned
  • S. Matsuno
  • M. D. Messier
  • A. K. Ichikawa
  • T. Ishida
  • T. Ishii
  • T. Iwashita
  • T. Kobayashi
  • T. Nakadaira
  • K. Nakamura
  • K. Nishikawa
  • K. Nitta
  • Y. Oyama
  • A. T. Suzuki
  • M. Hasegawa
  • H. Maesaka
  • T. Nakaya
  • T. Sasaki
  • H. Sato
  • H. Tanaka
  • S. Yamamoto
  • M. Yokoyama
  • T. J. Haines
  • S. Dazeley
  • S. Hatakeyama
  • R. Svoboda
  • G. W. Sullivan
  • R. Gran
  • A. Habig
  • Y. Fukuda
  • Y. Itow
  • T. Koike
  • C. K. Jung
  • T. Kato
  • K. Kobayashi
  • C. McGrew
  • A. Sarrat
  • R. Terri
  • C. Yanagisawa
  • N. Tamura
  • M. Ikeda
  • M. Sakuda
  • Y. Kuno
  • M. Yoshida
  • S. B. Kim
  • B. S. Yang
  • T. Ishizuka
  • H. Okazawa
  • Y. Choi
  • H. K. Seo
  • Y. Gando
  • T. Hasegawa
  • K. Inoue
  • H. Ishii
  • K. Nishijima
  • H. Ishino
  • Y. Watanabe
  • M. Koshiba
  • Y. Totsuka
  • S. Chen
  • Z. Deng
  • Y. Liu
  • D. Kielczewska
  • H. G. Berns
  • K. K. Shiraishi
  • E. Thrane
  • K. Washburn
  • R. J. Wilkes
  • Display all

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.91.072006

A search for neutron-antineutron ($n-\bar{n}$) oscillation was undertaken in<br />
Super-Kamiokande using the 1489 live-day or $2.45 \times 10^{34}$ neutron-year<br />
exposure data. This process violates both baryon and baryon minus lepton<br />
numbers by an absolute value of two units and is predicted by a large class of<br />
hypothetical models where the seesaw mechanism is incorporated to explain the<br />
observed tiny neutrino masses and the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the<br />
Universe. No evidence for $n-\bar{n}$ oscillation was found, the lower limit of<br />
the lifetime for neutrons bound in ${}^{16}$O, in an analysis that included all<br />
of the significant sources of experimental uncertainties, was determined to be<br />
$1.9 \times 10^{32}$~years at the 90\% confidence level. The corresponding<br />
lower limit for the oscillation time of free neutrons was calculated to be $2.7<br />
\times 10^8$~s using a theoretical value of the nuclear suppression factor of<br />
$0.517 \times 10^{23}$~s$^{-1}$ and its uncertainty.

Link information
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.072006
arXiv
http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1109.4227
URL
http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4227v2
ID information
  • DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.072006
  • arXiv ID : arXiv:1109.4227

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