Search for solar electron anti-neutrinos due to spin-flavor precession in the Sun with Super-Kamiokande-IV

被引：9

作者：

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-Berguno, D.

Labarga, L.

Marti, Ll

Zaldivar, B.

Blaszczyk, F. d. M.

Kearns, E.

Raaf, J. L.

Stone, J. L.

Wan, L.

Wester, T.

Pointon, B. W.

Bian, J.

Griskevich, N. J.

Kropp, W. R.

Locke, S.

Mine, S.

机构：

[1] Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu

[2] Research Center for Cosmic Neutrinos, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba

[3] Department of Theoretical Physics, University Autonoma Madrid, Madrid

[4] Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, 02215, MA

[5] Department of Physics, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Burnaby, BC

[6] Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, 92697-4575, CA

[7] Department of Physics, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, 90747, CA

[8] Institute for Universe and Elementary Particles, Chonnam National University, Gwangju

[9] Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, 27708, NC

[10] Ecole Polytechnique, IN2P3-CNRS, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Palaiseau

[11] Junior College, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka

[12] Department of Physics, Gifu University, Gifu

[13] GIST College, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju

[14] Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 96822, HI

[15] Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London

[16] Dipartimento Interuniversitario di Fisica, INFN Sezione di Bari and Università e Politecnico di Bari, Bari

[17] Dipartimento di Fisica, INFN Sezione di Napoli and Università di Napoli, Napoli

[18] Dipartimento di Fisica, INFN Sezione di Padova and Università di Padova, Padova

[19] INFN Sezione di Roma and Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma

[20] Department of Physics, King's College London, London

[21] Department of Physics, Keio University, Yokohama, Kanagawa

[22] High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki

[23] Department of Physics, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo

[24] Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto

[25] Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool

[26] Department of Physics, Miyagi University of Education, Sendai, Miyagi

[27] Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi

[28] Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi

[29] National Centre For Nuclear Research, Warsaw

[30] Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 11794-3800, NY

[31] Department of Physics, Okayama University, Okayama

[32] Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka

[33] Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford

[34] Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, Oxford

[35] Department of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul

[36] Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield

[37] Department of Informatics in Social Welfare, Shizuoka University of Welfare, Yaizu, Shizuoka

[38] STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, and Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington

[39] Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon

[40] Department of Physics, Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa

[41] The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo

[42] Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo

[43] Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba

[44] Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro, Tokyo

[45] Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba

[46] Department of Physics, University of Toronto, ON

[47] TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC

[48] Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing

[49] Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry

[50] Department of Physics, University of Winnipeg, MB

来源：

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | 2022年 / 139卷

基金：

美国国家科学基金会; 欧盟地平线“2020”; 新加坡国家研究基金会; 日本学术振兴会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 中国国家自然科学基金;

关键词：

Neutron tagging; Water Cherenkov detector; Electron antineutrinos; Neutrino-antineutrino oscillation; Solar neutrino; MAGNETIC-FIELDS; OSCILLATIONS; BOUNDS; ZONE;

D O I：

10.1016/j.astropartphys.2022.102702

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

Due to a very low production rate of electron anti-neutrinos ((v) over bar (epsilon)) via nuclear fusion in the Sun, a flux of solar (v) over bar (epsilon). is unexpected. An appearance of (v) over bar (epsilon) 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 (v(epsilon) ->(v) over bar (epsilon)) when neutrino has a finite magnetic moment. In this work, we have searched for solar (v) over bar (epsilon). in the Super-Kamiokande experiment, using neutron tagging to identify their inverse beta decay signature. We identified 78 v(epsilon). 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 x 10(-4) on the v(epsilon) -> (v) over bar (epsilon) 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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