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Kate Scholberg

Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics
Physics
Box 90305, Durham, NC 27708-0305
273 Physics Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Conferences


Time-dependent and Time-independent Directional Search for High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrino Point Sources in Super-Kamiokande

Conference Proceedings of Science · September 27, 2024 This contribution reports the results of the searches for high-energy astrophysical neutrino point sources in the energy range above GeV using Super-Kamiokande data. The searches include time-integrated and time-dependent full sky searches for both νμ ... Cite

Evaluation of neutron tagging efficiency on 0.03% Gd mass concentration in SK-Gd experiment

Conference Proceedings of Science · September 27, 2024 Super-Kamiokande (SK) experiment started the "SK-Gd experiment" by dissolving gadolinium (Gd) sulfate octa-hydrate in ultra-pure water from the tank in July 2020. The neutron tagging efficiency has been improved compared to the pure-water phase by detectin ... Cite

Measurement of the charge ratio and polarization of cosmic-ray muon using the tagged decay-e events in Super-Kamiokande

Conference Proceedings of Science · September 27, 2024 Neutrinos and muons from cosmic-ray interactions in the atmosphere originate from mesons, such as pions and kaons, in air-showers. An accuracy of the absolute atmospheric neutrino flux and its flavor ratio are limited due to the uncertainty of meson produc ... Cite

Status and Prospect of SK-Gd Project

Conference Proceedings of Science · September 27, 2024 In 2020, a new phase of Super-Kamiokande experiment, SK-Gd, was started by loading gadolinium into the pure water. This led to a high neutron detection efficiency, which allows us to distinguish different neutrino reactions, enhance signals and remove back ... Cite

Study of the neutrino-oxygen neutral-current quasielastic cross section using atmospheric neutrinos in the SK-Gd experiment

Conference Proceedings of Science · September 27, 2024 The atmospheric neutrino-oxygen neutral-current quasielasatic (NCQE) reactions are one of the main background in the search for supernova relic neutrinos. Here, we report the first measurement of the atmospheric neutrino-oxygen NCQE cross section in the Su ... Cite

Measurement of the kaon to pion production ratio with the Super-Kamiokande

Conference Proceedings of Science · September 27, 2024 Cosmic-ray muons are generated from the decay of mesons which are secondary particles produced via hadronic interaction between primary cosmic-ray particles and atmospheric nuclei at the upper the atmosphere. The mesons such pions and kaons mostly decay in ... Cite

Measurement of cosmogenic 9Li in Super-Kamiokande with gadolinium loaded water

Conference Proceedings of Science · September 27, 2024 Super-Kamiokande is a large water Cherenkov detector located approximately 1,000 m underground in Kamioka, Japan. The detector is a cylindrical tank 39.3 m in diameter and 41.4 m high, filled with about 50 kton of gadolinium loaded water. We measured ... Cite

First result of a search for Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background in SK-Gd experiment

Conference Proceedings of Science · September 27, 2024 Since 2020, Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector has been updated by loading gadolinium (Gd) as a new experimental phase, ‘SK-Gd.’ In the SK-Gd experiment, we can search low-energy electron antineutrinos via inverse-beta decay with efficient neutron identificati ... Cite

Search for Boosted Dark Matter in Super-Kamiokande with low-energy electrons

Conference Proceedings of Science · September 27, 2024 Despite efforts from numerous experiments to grasp the nature of dark matter, no convincing dark matter signal has been observed so far and the very properties of this invisible matter remain unknown. Nevertheless, strong constraints on these properties ar ... Cite

Follow-up of GWTC-2 gravitational wave events with neutrinos from the Super-Kamiokande detector

Conference Proceedings of Science · March 18, 2022 Super-Kamiokande (SK) is a 50-kt water Cherenkov detector, instrumented with ∼ 13k photo-multipliers and running since 1996. It is sensitive to neutrinos with energies ranging from 4.5 MeV to several TeV. A new framework has been developed for the follow-u ... Cite

Low energy radioactivity BG model in Super-Kamiokande detector from SK-IV data

Conference Proceedings of Science · March 18, 2022 The radioactivity background are among the most dangerous background for low energy neutrino analysis in Super-Kamiokande (SK), like the solar neutrino analysis. Among them, the main contribution is coming from 222Rn, which is spread in the dete ... Cite

Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background search at Super-Kamiokande with neutron tagging

Conference Proceedings of Science · March 18, 2022 Detecting the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background at Super-Kamiokande requires designing state-of-the-art background removal technique to reject radioactivity induced by cosmic muon spallation, and identify atmospheric neutrino interactions. Identifying ... Cite

Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background Search at Super-Kamiokande

Conference Proceedings of Science · March 18, 2022 We present the results of a search for the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background (DSNB) at Super-Kamiokande (SK) that incorporates 22.5 × 2970 kton.days of data from its fourth data-taking phase. Two analyses, with different energy regimes covering the 9.3 ... Cite

Core-Collapse Supernova Search Strategy: Gravitational Waves and Low-Energy Neutrinos

Conference Proceedings of Science · January 1, 2021 Core-collapse supernovae are expected to produce multimessenger signals. Low-energy neutrinos and gravitational waves are important to study the explosion mechanism of these events. The simulations and detections of gravitational waves from these events ar ... Cite

Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering

Conference Journal of Physics Conference Series · March 20, 2020 Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS), the gentlest kind of interaction of a neutrino with an entire nucleus, was first predicted in 1974, but not observed until 2017 by the COHERENT collaboration. COHERENT and many other experiments are pur ... Full text Cite

New Technologies for Discovery

Conference CPAD Instrumentation Frontier Workshop 2018: New Technologies for Discovery IV (CPAD 2018) Providence, RI, United States, December 9-11, 2018 · 2019 Cite

Neutrino non-standard interaction studies with COHERENT at the spallation neutron source

Conference Neutrino 2018 28th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics Conference Proceedings · January 1, 2018 Cite

Data unfolding for the helium and lead observatory

Conference Neutrino 2018 28th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics Conference Proceedings · January 1, 2018 Cite

COHERENT Experiment: current status

Conference J. Phys. Conf. Ser. · 2017 Full text Cite

Supernova Physics at DUNE

Conference Supernova Physics at DUNE Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, March 11-12, 2016 · 2016 Cite

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering

Conference Journal of Physics Conference Series · May 1, 2015 I describe physics potential and experimental prospects for coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS), a process which has not yet been observed. Germanium- based detectors represent a promising technology for CEvNS experiments. I focus primaril ... Full text Cite

Fast neutron measurements at the Booster Neutrino Beamline for a future Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CENNS) Experiment at Fermilab

Conference Proceedings, 12th Meeting of Task-Force on Shielding Aspects of Accelerators, Targets and Irradiation Facilities (SATIF-12): Batavia, IL, USA, April 28-30, 2014 · 2015 Cite

Super-KAVE: An immersive visualization tool for neutrino physics

Conference Proceedings IEEE Virtual Reality · October 7, 2013 Located under Japan's Mount Ikenoyama, the Super-Kamiokande (or 'Super-K') neutrino detector is used to study neutrino particle physics. The Super-K detector consists of a cylindrical stainless steel tank (41.4m tall and 39.3m in diameter) holding 50,000 t ... Full text Cite

Search for light WIMP captured in the Sun using contained events in Super-Kamiokande

Conference Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Rays Conference Icrc 2013 · January 1, 2013 Super-Kamiokande can search for dark matter by detecting neutrinos and muons which are produced by WIMP pair annihilations occur inside the Sun. The huge gravity and hydrogen-rich composition of the Sun combined with high sensitivity of Super-Kamiokande fo ... Cite

Working Group Report: Neutrinos

Conference Proceedings, 2013 Community Summer Study on the Future of U.S. Particle Physics: Snowmass on the Mississippi (CSS2013): Minneapolis, MN, USA, July 29-August 6, 2013 · 2013 Cite

Scientific Opportunities with the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment

Conference Proceedings, 2013 Community Summer Study on the Future of U.S. Particle Physics: Snowmass on the Mississippi (CSS2013): Minneapolis, MN, USA, July 29-August 6, 2013 · 2013 Cite

Neutrino Experiments at the SNS

Conference AIP Conference Proceedings · 2009 Full text Cite

CLEAR: Prospects for a low threshold neutrino experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source

Conference Journal of Physics: Conference Series · November 1, 2008 Full text Cite

Current status of solar neutrinos at super-kamiokande

Conference Annual Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society, DPF 2006, and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Japan Particle Physics Community · 2006 • SK-III has been started and is taking data • SK-II data has been updated to its final 791d • Oscillation analysis with SK-I, SK-II data has been performed and shows consistency with final SK-I data set • SK-II shows consistency within the global analysis ... Cite

Current status of solar neutrinos at super-kamiokande

Conference Annual Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society Dpf 2006 and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Japan Particle Physics Community · January 1, 2006 • SK-III has been started and is taking data • SK-II data has been updated to its final 791d • Oscillation analysis with SK-I, SK-II data has been performed and shows consistency with final SK-I data set • SK-II shows consistency within the global analysis ... Cite

AMS-02 on the International Space Station

Conference AIP Conference Proceedings · 2004 Full text Cite