Search for Supernova Relic Neutrinos at Super-Kamiokande

M. Malek, M. Morii, S. Fukuda, Y. Fukuda, M. Ishitsuka, Y. Itow, T. Kajita, J. Kameda, K. Kaneyuki, K. Kobayashi, Y. Koshio, M. Miura, S. Moriyama, M. Nakahata, S. Nakayama, T. Namba, A. Okada, T. Ooyabu, C. Saji, N. SakuraiM. Shiozawa, Y. Suzuki, H. Takeuchi, Y. Takeuchi, Y. Totsuka, S. Yamada, S. Desai, M. Earl, E. Kearns, M. D. Messier, J. L. Stone, L. R. Sulak, C. W. Walter, M. Goldhaber, T. Barszczak, D. Casper, W. Gajewski, W. R. Kropp, S. Mine, D. W. Liu, M. B. Smy, H. W. Sobel, M. R. Vagins, A. Gago, K. S. Ganezer, W. E. Keig, R. W. Ellsworth, S. Tasaka, A. Kibayashi, J. G. Learned, S. Matsuno, D. Takemori, Y. Hayato, T. Ishii, T. Kobayashi, T. Maruyama, K. Nakamura, Y. Obayashi, Y. Oyama, M. Sakuda, M. Yoshida, M. Kohama, T. Iwashita, A. T. Suzuki, A. Ichikawa, T. Inagaki, I. Kato, T. Nakaya, K. Nishikawa, T. J. Haines, S. Dazeley, S. Hatakeyama, R. Svoboda, E. Blaufuss, J. A. Goodman, G. Guillian, G. W. Sullivan, D. Turcan, K. Scholberg, A. Habig, M. Ackermann, J. Hill, C. K. Jung, K. Martens, C. Mauger, C. McGrew, E. Sharkey, B. Viren, C. Yanagisawa, T. Toshito, C. Mitsuda, K. Miyano, T. Shibata, Y. Kajiyama, Y. Nagashima, K. Nitta, M. Takita, H. I. Kim, S. B. Kim, J. Yoo, H. Okazawa, T. Ishizuka, M. Etoh, Y. Gando, T. Hasegawa, K. Inoue, K. Ishihara, J. Shirai, A. Suzuki, M. Koshiba, Y. Hatakeyama, Y. Ichikawa, M. Koike, K. Nishijima, H. Ishino, R. Nishimura, Y. Watanabe, D. Kielczewska, H. G. Berns, S. C. Boyd, A. L. Stachyra, R. J. Wilkes

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Abstract

A search for the relic neutrinos from all past core-collapse supernovae was conducted using 1496 days of data from the Super-Kamiokande detector. This analysis looked for electron-type antineutrinos that had produced a positron with an energy greater than 18 MeV. In the absence of a signal, 90% C.L. upper limits on the total flux were set for several theoretical models; these limits ranged from 20 to [Formula presented]. Additionally, an upper bound of [Formula presented] was set for the supernova relic neutrino flux in the energy region [Formula presented].

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number061101
Pages (from-to)061101/1-061101/5
Number of pages1
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume90
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2003

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