@article{0303994049d14719ac095fbe8dd2bbad,
title = "Search for proton decay into three charged leptons in 0.37 megaton-years exposure of the Super-Kamiokande",
abstract = "A search for proton decay into three charged leptons has been performed by using 0.37 Mton·years of data collected in Super-Kamiokande. All possible combinations of electrons, muons, and their antiparticles consistent with charge conservation were considered as decay modes. No significant excess of events has been found over the background, and lower limits on the proton lifetime divided by the branching ratio have been obtained. The limits range between 9.2×1033 and 3.4×1034 years at 90% confidence level, improving by more than an order of magnitude upon limits from previous experiments. A first limit has been set for the p→μ-e+e+ mode.",
author = "{THE SUPER-KAMIOKANDE COLLABORATION} and M. Tanaka and K. Abe and C. Bronner and Y. Hayato and M. Ikeda and S. Imaizumi and H. Ito and J. Kameda and Y. Kataoka and Y. Kato and Y. Kishimoto and Ll Marti and M. Miura and S. Moriyama and T. Mochizuki and M. Nakahata and Y. Nakajima and S. Nakayama and T. Okada and K. Okamoto and A. Orii and G. Pronost and H. Sekiya and M. Shiozawa and Y. Sonoda and A. Takeda and A. Takenaka and H. Tanaka and T. Yano and R. Akutsu and T. Kajita and K. Okumura and R. Wang and J. Xia and D. Bravo-Bergun{\~o} and L. Labarga and P. Fernandez and Blaszczyk, {F. D.M.} and E. Kearns and Raaf, {J. L.} and Stone, {J. L.} and L. Wan and T. Wester and J. Bian and Griskevich, {N. J.} and Kropp, {W. R.} and H. Ishino and S. Ito and Y. Koshio and M. Sakuda",
note = "Funding Information: We gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of the Kamioka Mining and Smelting Company. 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 Grant No. NRF-2009-0083526 (KNRC) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning and the Ministry of Education (Grants No. 2018R1D1A3B07050696 and No. 2018R1D1A1B07049158), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 11235006, the Spanish Ministry of Science, Universities and Innovation (Grant No. PGC2018-099388-B-I00), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, the Scinet and Westgrid consortia of Compute Canada, the National Science Centre, Poland (2015/18/E/ST2/00758), the Science and Technology Facilities Council and GridPPP, United Kingdom, the European Union{\textquoteright}s H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018 JENNIFER2 Grant No. 822070, and H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019 SK2HK Grant No. 872549. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 authors.",
year = "2020",
month = mar,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.101.052011",
language = "English",
volume = "101",
journal = "Physical Review D",
issn = "2470-0010",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "5",
}