@article{25c05bc367174a68bc848ff2ddc073b9,
title = "Search for nucleon decay into charged antilepton plus meson in 0.316 megaton·years exposure of the Super-Kamiokande water Cherenkov detector",
abstract = "We have searched for proton decays into a charged antilepton (e+, μ+) plus a meson (η, ρ0, ω) and for neutron decays into a charged antilepton (e+, μ+) plus a meson (π-, ρ-) using Super-Kamiokande I-IV data, corresponding to 0.316 megaton·years of exposure. This measurement updates the previous published result by using 2.26 times more data and improved analysis methods. No significant evidence for nucleon decay is observed and lower limits on the partial lifetime of the nucleon are obtained. The limits range from 3×1031 to 1×1034 years at 90% confidence level, depending on the decay mode.",
author = "{(The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration)} and K. Abe and C. Bronner and G. Pronost and Y. Hayato and M. Ikeda and K. Iyogi and J. Kameda and Y. Kato and Y. Kishimoto and Ll Marti and M. Miura and S. Moriyama and M. Nakahata and Y. Nakano and S. Nakayama and Y. Okajima and A. Orii and H. Sekiya and M. Shiozawa and Y. Sonoda and A. Takeda and A. Takenaka and H. Tanaka and S. Tasaka and T. Tomura and R. Akutsu and T. Kajita and K. Kaneyuki and Y. Nishimura and K. Okumura and Tsui, {K. M.} and L. Labarga and P. Fernandez and Blaszczyk, {F. D.M.} and J. Gustafson and C. Kachulis and E. Kearns and Raaf, {J. L.} and Stone, {J. L.} and Sulak, {L. R.} and S. Berkman and S. Tobayama and M. Goldhaber and M. Elnimr and Kropp, {W. R.} and S. Mine and S. Locke and P. Weatherly and Smy, {M. B.} and Sobel, {H. W.}",
note = "Funding Information: The Super-Kamiokande experiment has been built and operated from funding by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Some of us have been supported by funds from the National Research Foundation of Korea NRF-2009-0083526 (KNRC) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning, the European Union H2020 RISE-GA641540-SKPLUS, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No. 11235006, the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, the Scinet and Westgrid consortia of Compute Canada, and the National Science Centre of Poland (2015/17/N/ST2/04064, 2015/18/E/ST2/00758). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 American Physical Society.",
year = "2017",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.96.012003",
language = "English",
volume = "96",
journal = "Physical Review D",
issn = "2470-0010",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "1",
}