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Search for Periodic Time Variations of the Solar B 8 Neutrino Flux between 1996 and 2018 in Super-Kamiokande

  • Super-Kamiokande Collaboration
  • University of Tokyo
  • Long Beach VA and University of California
  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • British Columbia Institute of Technology
  • TRIUMF
  • Boston University
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
  • California State University, Dominguez Hills
  • Chonnam National University
  • Duke University
  • Ip Paris
  • Gifu University
  • Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
  • University of Glasgow
  • University of Hawaii
  • Institute for Basic Science (IBS)
  • ICISE
  • Imperial College London
  • Politecnico di Bari
  • University of Naples Federico II
  • University of Padova
  • University of Rome
  • Keio University
  • King's College London
  • Kobe University
  • Kyoto University
  • University of Liverpool
  • Miyagi University of Education
  • Nagoya University
  • National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ)
  • Stony Brook University
  • York College/The City University of New York
  • Okayama University
  • Osaka Electro-Communication University
  • University of Oxford
  • CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • Daresbury Laboratory
  • Seoul National University
  • The University of Sheffield
  • Shizuoka University of Welfare
  • Sungkyunkwan University
  • Tohoku University
  • Tokai University
  • Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Tokyo University of Science
  • University of Victoria
  • Tsinghua University
  • University of Warsaw
  • University of Warwick
  • University of Winnipeg
  • Yokohama National University

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Abstract

We report a search for time variations of the solar B8 neutrino flux using 5804 live days of Super-Kamiokande data collected between May 31, 1996, and May 30, 2018. Super-Kamiokande measured the precise time of each solar neutrino interaction over 22 calendar years to search for solar neutrino flux modulations with unprecedented precision. Periodic modulations are searched for in a dataset comprising five-day interval solar neutrino flux measurements with a maximum likelihood method. We also applied the Lomb-Scargle method to this dataset to compare it with previous reports. The only significant modulation found is due to the elliptic orbit of the Earth around the Sun. The observed modulation is consistent with astronomical data: we measured an eccentricity of (1.53±0.35)%, and a perihelion shift of (-1.5±13.5) days.

Original languageEnglish
Article number241803
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume132
Issue number24
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 Jun 2024

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