1010.0118 (K. Abe et al.)

Solar neutrino results in Super-Kamiokande-III    [PDF]

K. Abe, Y. Hayato, T. Iida, M. Ikeda, C. Ishihara, K. Iyogi, J. Kameda, K. Kobayashi, Y. Koshio, Y. Kozuma, M. Miura, S. Moriyama, M. Nakahata, S. Nakayama, Y. Obayashi, H. Ogawa, H. Sekiya, M. Shiozawa, Y. Suzuki, A. Takeda, Y. Takenaga, K. Ueno, K. Ueshima, H. Watanabe, S. Yamada, T. Yokozawa, S. Hazama, H. Kaji, T. Kajita, K. Kaneyuki, T. McLachlan, K. Okumura, Y. Shimizu, N. Tanimoto, M. R. Vagins, L. Labarga, L. M Magro, F. Dufour, E. Kearns, M. Litos, J. L. Raaf, J. L. Stone, L. R. Sulak, W. Wang, M. Goldhaber, K. Bays, D. Casper, J. P. Cravens, W. R. Kropp, S. Mine, C. Regis, A. Renshaw, M. B. Smy, H. W. Sobel, K. S. Ganezer, J. Hill, W. E. Keig, J. S. Jang, J. Y. Kim, I. T. Lim, J. Albert, R. Wendell, T. Wongjirad, K. Scholberg, C. W. Walter, T. Ishizuka, S. Tasaka, J. G. Learned, S. Matsuno, Y. Watanabe, T. Hasegawa, T. Ishida, T. Ishii, T. Kobayashi, T. Nakadaira, K. Nakamura, K. Nishikawa, H. Nishino, Y. Oyama, K. Sakashita, T. Sekiguchi, T. Tsukamoto, A. T. Suzuki, Y. Takeuchi, A. Minamino, T. Nakaya, Y. Fukuda, Y. Itow, G. Mitsuka, T. Tanaka, C. K. Jung, G. Lopez, C. McGrew, R. Terri, C. Yanagisawa, N. Tamura, H. Ishino, A. Kibayashi, S. Mino, T. Mori, M. Sakuda, H. Toyota, Y. Kuno, M. Yoshida, S. B. Kim, B. S. Yang, T. Ishizuka, H. Okazawa, Y. Choi, K. Nishijima, Y. Yokosawa, M. Koshiba, Y. Totsuka, M. Yokoyama, S. Chen, Y. Heng, Z. Yang, H. Zhang, D. Kielczewska, P. Mijakowski, K. Connolly, M. Dziomba, E. Thrane, R. J. Wilkes

The results of the third phase of the Super-Kamiokande solar neutrino measurement are presented and compared to the first and second phase results. With improved detector calibrations, a full detector simulation, and improved analysis methods, the systematic uncertainty on the total neutrino flux is estimated to be ?2.1%, which is about two thirds of the systematic uncertainty for the first phase of Super-Kamiokande. The observed 8B solar flux in the 5.0 to 20 MeV total electron energy region is 2.32+/-0.04 (stat.)+/-0.05 (sys.) *10^6 cm^-2sec^-1, in agreement with previous measurements. A combined oscillation analysis is carried out using SK-I, II, and III data, and the results are also combined with the results of other solar neutrino experiments. The best-fit oscillation parameters are obtained to be sin^2 {\theta}12 = 0.30+0.02-0.01(tan^2 {\theta}12 = 0.42+0.04 -0.02) and {\Delta}m2_21 = 6.2+1.1-1.9 *10^-5eV^2. Combined with KamLAND results, the best-fit oscillation parameters are found to be sin^2 {\theta}12 = 0.31+/-0.01(tan^2 {\theta}12 = 0.44+/-0.03) and {\Delta}m2_21 = 7.6?0.2*10^-5eV^2 . The 8B neutrino flux obtained from global solar neutrino experiments is 5.3+/-0.2(stat.+sys.)*10^6cm^-2s^-1, while the 8B flux becomes 5.1+/-0.1(stat.+sys.)*10^6cm^-2s^-1 by adding KamLAND result. In a three-flavor analysis combining all solar neutrino experiments, the upper limit of sin^2 {\theta}13 is 0.060 at 95% C.L.. After combination with KamLAND results, the upper limit of sin^2 {\theta}13 is found to be 0.059 at 95% C.L..

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