| Title: |
Search for dinucleon decay into pions at Super-Kamiokande |
| Authors: |
Gustafson, J., Abe, K., Haga, Y., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kishimoto, Y., Miura, M., Moriyama, S., Nakahata, M., Nakajima, T., Nakano, Y., Nakayama, S., Orii, A., Sekiya, H., Shiozawa, M., Takeda, A., Tanaka, H., Tomura, T., Wendell, R. A., Irvine, T., Kajita, T., Kametani, I., Kaneyuki, K., Nishimura, Y., Richard, E., Okumura, K., Labarga, L., Fernandez, P., Berkman, S., Tanaka, H. A., Tobayama, S., Kearns, E., Raaf, J. L., Stone, J. L., Sulak, L. R., Goldhaber, M., Carminati, G., Kropp, W. R., Mine, S., Weatherly, P., Renshaw, A., Smy, M. B., Sobel, H. W., Takhistov, V., Ganezer, K. S., Hartfiel, B. L., Hill, J., Hong, N., Kim, J. Y., Lim, I. T., Akiri, T., Himmel, A., Scholberg, K., Walter, C. W., Wongjirad, T., Ishizuka, T., Tasaka, S., Jang, J. S., Learned, J. G., Matsuno, S., Smith, S. N., Hasegawa, T., Ishida, T., Ishii, T., Kobayashi, T., Nakadaira, T., Nakamura, K., Oyama, Y., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Suzuki, T. TsukamotoA. T., Takeuchi, Y., Yano, T., Hirota, S., Huang, K., Ieki, K., Kikawa, T., Minamino, A., Nakaya, T., Suzuki, K., Takahashi, S., Fukuda, Y., Choi, K., Itow, Y., Mitsuka, G., Suzuki, T., Mijakowski, P., Hignight, J., Imber, J., Jung, C. K., Palomino, J. L., Yanagisawa, C., Ishino, H., Kayano, T., Kibayashi, A., Koshio, Y., Mori, T., Sakuda, M., Kuno, Y., Tacik, R., Kim, S. B., Okazawa, H., Choi, Y., Nishijima, K., Koshiba, M., Suda, Y., Totsuka, Y., Yokoyama, M., Bronner, C., Martens, K., Marti, Ll., Suzuki, Y., Vagins, M. R., Martin, J. F., de Perio, P., Konaka, A., Wilking, M. J., Chen, S., Zhang, Y., Wilkes, R. J. |
| Publication Year: |
2015 |
| Collection: |
High Energy Physics - Experiment |
| Subject Terms: |
High Energy Physics - Experiment |
| More Details: |
A search for dinucleon decay into pions with the Super-Kamiokande detector has been performed with an exposure of 282.1 kiloton-years. Dinucleon decay is a process that violates baryon number by two units. We present the first search for dinucleon decay to pions in a large water Cherenkov detector. The modes $^{16}$O$(pp) \rightarrow$ $^{14}$C$\pi^{+}\pi^{+}$, $^{16}$O$(pn) \rightarrow$ $^{14}$N$\pi^{+}\pi^{0}$, and $^{16}$O$(nn) \rightarrow$ $^{14}$O$\pi^{0}\pi^{0}$ are investigated. No significant excess in the Super-Kamiokande data has been found, so a lower limit on the lifetime of the process per oxygen nucleus is determined. These limits are: $\tau_{pp\rightarrow\pi^{+}\pi^{+}} > 7.22 \times 10^{31}$ years, $\tau_{pn\rightarrow\pi^{+}\pi^{0}} > 1.70 \times 10^{32}$ years, and $\tau_{nn\rightarrow\pi^{0}\pi^{0}} > 4.04 \times 10^{32}$ years. The lower limits on each mode are about two orders of magnitude better than previous limits from searches for dinucleon decay in iron.
Comment: 20 pages, 17 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D on March 30, 2015 |
| Document Type: |
Working Paper |
| DOI: |
10.1103/PhysRevD.91.072009 |
| Access URL: |
http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.01041 |
| Accession Number: |
edsarx.1504.01041 |
| Database: |
arXiv |
