High sensitivity search for (ν)over-bare's from the Sun and other sources at KamLAND -: art. no. 071301

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作者
Eguchi, K [1 ]
Enomoto, S
Furuno, K
Ikeda, H
Ikeda, K
Inoue, K
Ishihara, K
Iwamoto, T
Kawashima, T
Kishimoto, Y
Koga, M
Koseki, Y
Maeda, T
Mitsui, T
Motoki, M
Nakajima, K
Ogawa, H
Owada, K
Piquemal, F
Shimizu, I
Shirai, J
Suekane, F
Suzuki, A
Tada, K
Tajima, O
Takayama, T
Tamae, K
Watanabe, H
Busenitz, J
Djurcic, Z
McKinny, K
Mei, DM
Piepke, A
Yakushev, E
Berger, BE
Chan, YD
Decowski, MP
Dwyer, DA
Freedman, SJ
Fu, Y
Fujikawa, BK
Goldman, J
Heeger, KM
Lesko, KT
Luk, KB
Murayama, H
Nygren, DR
Okada, CE
Poon, AWP
Steiner, HM
机构
[1] Tohoku Univ, Res Ctr Neutrino Sci, Sendai, Miyagi 9808578, Japan
[2] Univ Alabama, Dept Phys & Astron, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA
[3] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[4] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[5] CALTECH, WK Kellogg Radiat Lab, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[6] Drexel Univ, Dept Phys, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[7] Univ Hawaii Manoa, Dept Phys & Astron, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[8] Louisiana State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[9] Univ New Mexico, Dept Phys, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[10] Stanford Univ, Dept Phys, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[11] Univ Tennessee, Dept Phys & Astron, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA
[12] Triangle Univ Nucl Lab, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[13] Duke Univ, Dept Phys, Durham, NC 27706 USA
[14] N Carolina State Univ, Dept Phys, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA
[15] Univ N Carolina, Dept Phys, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 USA
[16] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.071301
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O4 [物理学];
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摘要
Data corresponding to a KamLAND detector exposure of 0.28 kton yr has been used to search for (v) over bar (e)'s in the energy range 8.3<E-(v) over bare<14.8 MeV. No candidates were found for an expected background of 1.1+/-0.4 events. This result can be used to obtain a limit on (v) over bar (e) fluxes of any origin. Assuming that all (v) over bar (e) flux has its origin in the Sun and has the characteristic B-8 solar nu(e) energy spectrum, we obtain an upper limit of 3.7x10(2) cm(-2) s(-1) (90% C.L.) on the (v) over bar (e) flux. We interpret this limit, corresponding to 2.8x10(-4) of the standard solar model B-8 nu(e) flux, in the framework of spin-flavor precession and neutrino decay models.
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