Kinematic reconstruction of atmospheric neutrino events in a large water Cherenkov detector with proton identification

Details Kinematic reconstruction of atmospheric neutrino events in a large water Cherenkov detector with proton identification Kinematic reconstruction of atmospheric neutrino events in a large water Cherenkov detector with proton identification

2009-01-12

arxiv.org/abs/0901.1645v2

Phys.Rev.D79:112010,2009

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment

23 pages, 22 figures. Corrected typos, replaced some figures. Version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.79.112010

We report the development of a proton identification method for the Super-Kamiokande detector. This new tool is applied to the search for events with a single proton track, a high purity neutral current sample of interest for sterile neutrino searches. After selection using a neural network, we observe 38 events in the combined SK-I and SK-II data corresponding to 2285.1 days of exposure, with an estimated signal to background ratio of 1.6 to 1. Proton identification was also applied to a direct search for charged-current quasi-elastic (CCQE) events, obtaining a high precision sample of fully kinematically reconstructed atmospheric neutrinos, which has not been previously reported in water Cherenkov detectors. The CCQE fraction of this sample is 55%, and its neutrino (as opposed to anti-neutrino) fraction is 91.7+/-3%. We selected 78 mu-like and 47 e-like events in the SK-I and SK-II data set. With this data, a clear zenith angle distortion of the neutrino direction itself is reported in a sub-GeV sample of muon neutrinos where the lepton angular correlation to the incoming neutrino is weak. Our fit to nu_mu->nu_tau oscillations using the neutrino L/E distribution of the CCQE sample alone yields a wide acceptance region compatible with our previous results and excludes the no-oscillation hypothesis at 3 sigma.

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