Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2007-12-31
Phys.Rev.D77:032003,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
13 pages, 16 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.032003
The atmospheric neutrino background for proton decay to positron and neutral pion in ring imaging water Cherenkov detectors is studied with an artificial accelerator neutrino beam for the first time. In total, about 314,000 neutrino events corresponding to about 10 megaton-years of atmospheric neutrino interactions were collected by a 1,000 ton water Cherenkov detector (KT). The KT charged-current single neutral pion production data are well reproduced by simulation programs of neutrino and secondary hadronic interactions used in the Super-Kamiokande (SK) proton decay search. The obtained proton to positron and neutral pion background rate by the KT data for SK from the atmospheric neutrinos whose energies are below 3 GeV is about two per megaton-year. This result is also relevant to possible future, megaton-scale water Cherenkov detectors.
K2K Collaboration
Mine S.
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