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arxiv: 2305.05135 · v2 · pith:324V2L2Znew · submitted 2023-05-09 · 🌌 astro-ph.HE · hep-ex· nucl-ex· physics.ins-det

Search for astrophysical electron antineutrinos in Super-Kamiokande with 0.01wt% gadolinium-loaded water

M. Harada , K. Abe , C. Bronner , Y. Hayato , K. Hiraide , K. Hosokawa , K. Ieki , M. Ikeda
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J. Kameda Y. Kanemura R. Kaneshima Y. Kashiwagi Y. Kataoka S. Miki S. Mine M. Miura S. Moriyama Y. Nakano M. Nakahata S. Nakayama Y. Noguchi K. Okamoto K. Sato H. Sekiya H. Shiba K. Shimizu M. Shiozawa Y. Sonoda Y. Suzuki A. Takeda Y. Takemoto A. Takenaka H. Tanaka S. Watanabe T. Yano S. Han T. Kajita K. Okumura T. Tashiro T. Tomiya X. Wang S. Yoshida G. D. Megias P. Fernandez L. Labarga N. Ospina B. Zaldivar B. W. Pointon E. Kearns J. L. Raaf L. Wan T. Wester J. Bian N. J. Griskevich S. Locke M. B. Smy H. W. Sobel V. Takhistov A. Yankelevich J. Hill S. H. Lee D. H. Moon R. G. Park B. Bodur K. Scholberg C. W. Walter A. Beauchene O. Drapier A. Giampaolo Th. A. Mueller A. D. Santos P. Paganini B. Quilain T. Ishizuka T. Nakamura J. S. Jang J. G. Learned K. Choi N. Iovine S. Cao L. H. V. Anthony D. Martin M. Scott A. A. Sztuc Y. Uchida V. Berardi M. G. Catanesi E. Radicioni N. F. Calabria A. Langella L. N. Machado G. De Rosa G. Collazuol F. Iacob M. Lamoureux M. Mattiazzi L. Ludovici M. Gonin G. Pronost C. Fujisawa Y. Maekawa Y. Nishimura R. Okazaki R. Akutsu M. Friend T. Hasegawa T. Ishida T. Kobayashi M. Jakkapu T. Matsubara T. Nakadaira K. Nakamura Y. Oyama K. Sakashita T. Sekiguchi T. Tsukamoto N. Bhuiyan G. T. Burton F. Di Lodovico J. Gao A. Goldsack T. Katori J. Migenda Z. Xie S. Zsoldos Y. Kotsar H. Ozaki A. T. Suzuki Y. Takagi Y. Takeuchi J. Feng L. Feng J. R. Hu Z. Hu T. Kikawa M. Mori T. Nakaya R. A. Wendell K. Yasutome S. J. Jenkins N. McCauley P. Mehta A. Tarrant Y. Fukuda Y. Itow H. Menjo K. Ninomiya J. Lagoda S. M. Lakshmi M. Mandal P. Mijakowski Y. S. Prabhu J. Zalipska M. Jia J. Jiang C. K. Jung M. J. Wilking C. Yanagisawa Y. Hino H. Ishino H. Kitagawa Y. Koshio F. Nakanishi S. Sakai T. Tada T. Tano G. Barr D. Barrow L. Cook S. Samani D. Wark A. Holin F. Nova B. S. Yang J. Y. Yang J. Yoo J. E. P. Fannon L. Kneale M. Malek J. M. McElwee M. D. Thiesse L. F. Thompson S. T. Wilson H. Okazawa S. B. Kim E. Kwon J. W. Seo I. Yu A. K. Ichikawa K. D. Nakamura S. Tairafune K. Nishijima K. Nakagiri Y. Nakajima S. Shima N. Taniuchi E. Watanabe M. Yokoyama P. de Perio K. Martens K. M. Tsui M. R. Vagins J. Xia M. Kuze S. Izumiyama R. Matsumoto M. Ishitsuka H. Ito T. Kinoshita Y. Ommura N. Shigeta M. Shinoki T. Suganuma K. Yamauchi J. F. Martin H. A. Tanaka T. Towstego R. Gaur V. Gousy-Leblanc M. Hartz A. Konaka X. Li N. W. Prouse S. Chen B. D. Xu B. Zhang M. Posiadala-Zezula S. B. Boyd R. Edwards D. Hadley M. Nicholson M. O Flaherty B. Richards A. Ali B. Jamieson Ll. Marti A. Minamino G. Pintaudi S. Sano S. Suzuki K. Wada
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We report the first search result for the flux of astrophysical electron antineutrinos for energies O(10) MeV in the gadolinium-loaded Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector. In June 2020, gadolinium was introduced to the ultra-pure water of the SK detector in order to detect neutrons more efficiently. In this new experimental phase, SK-Gd, we can search for electron antineutrinos via inverse beta decay with efficient background rejection and higher signal efficiency thanks to the high efficiency of the neutron tagging technique. In this paper, we report the result for the initial stage of SK-Gd with a $22.5\times552$ $\rm kton\cdot day$ exposure at 0.01% Gd mass concentration. No significant excess over the expected background in the observed events is found for the neutrino energies below 31.3 MeV. Thus, the flux upper limits are placed at the 90% confidence level. The limits and sensitivities are already comparable with the previous SK result with pure-water ($22.5 \times 2970 \rm kton\cdot day$) owing to the enhanced neutron tagging.

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