Abstract
We have searched for proton decay via using Super-Kamiokande data from April 1996 to February 2013, exposure in total. No evidence for this proton decay mode is found. A lower limit of the proton lifetime is set to years at 90% confidence level.
8 More- Received 7 August 2014
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.072005
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Synopsis
Proton Longevity Pushes New Bounds
Published 14 October 2014
A long-running experiment in Japan has released a new lower limit on the proton lifetime, which begins to constrain certain particle physics theories.
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