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  • Improved search for invisible modes of nucleon decay in water with the SNO+ detector
    Publication . SNO+ Collaboration; A. Allega; M. R. Anderson; S. Andringa; M. Askins; D. J. Auty; A. Bacon; N. Barros; F. Barão; R. Bayes; E. W. Beier; T. S. Bezerra; A. Bialek; S. D. Biller; E. Blucher; E. Caden; E. J. Callaghan; S. Cheng; M. Chen; O. Chkvorets; B. Cleveland; D. Cookman; J. Corning; M. A. Cox; R. Dehghani; C. Deluce; M. M. Depatie; J. Dittmer; K. H. Dixon; F. Di Lodovico; E. Falk; N. Fatemighomi; R. Ford; K. Frankiewicz; A. Gaur; O. I. González-Reina; D. Gooding; C. Grant; J. Grove; A. L. Hallin; D. Hallman; J. Hartnell; W. J. Heintzelman; R. L. Helmer; J. Hu; R. Hunt-Stokes; S. M. A. Hussain; A. S. Inácio; C. J. Jillings; T. Kaptanoglu; P. Khaghani; H. Khan; J. R. Klein; L. L. Kormos; B. Krar; C. Kraus; C. B. Krauss; T. Kroupová; I. Lam; B. J. Land; I. Lawson; L. Lebanowski; J. Lee; C. Lefebvre; J. Lidgard; Y. H. Lin; V. Lozza; M. Luo; A. Maio; S. Manecki; J. Maneira; R. D. Martin; N. McCauley; A. B. McDonald; M. Meyer; C. Mills; I. Morton-Blake; S. Naugle; L. J. Nolan; H. M. O'Keeffe; G. D. Orebi Gann; J. Page; W. Parker; J. Paton; S. J. M. Peeters; L. Pickard; P. Ravi; A. Reichold; S. Riccetto; R. Richardson; M. Rigan; J. Rose; J. Rumleskie; I. Semenec; P. Skensved; M. Smiley; R. Svoboda; B. Tam; J. Tseng; E. Turner; S. Valder; J. G. C. Veinot; C. J. Virtue; E. Vázquez-Jáuregui; J. Wang; M. Ward; J. J. Weigand; J. D. Wilson; J. R. Wilson; A. Wright; J. P. Yanez; S. Yang; M. Yeh; S. Yu; T. Zhang; Y. Zhang; K. Zuber; A. Zummo
    This paper reports results from a search for single and multi-nucleon disappearance from the $^{16}$O nucleus in water within the \snoplus{} detector using all of the available data. These so-called "invisible" decays do not directly deposit energy within the detector but are instead detected through their subsequent nuclear de-excitation and gamma-ray emission. New limits are given for the partial lifetimes: $\tau(n\rightarrow inv) > 9.0\times10^{29}$ years, $\tau(p\rightarrow inv) > 9.6\times10^{29}$ years, $\tau(nn\rightarrow inv) > 1.5\times10^{28}$ years, $\tau(np\rightarrow inv) > 6.0\times10^{28}$ years, and $\tau(pp\rightarrow inv) > 1.1\times10^{29}$ years at 90\% Bayesian credibility level (with a prior uniform in rate). All but the ($nn\rightarrow inv$) results improve on existing limits by a factor of about 3.
    2022-06-27Journal article Open access Show more