Search for Proton Decay via p → e⁺π⁰ and p → μ⁺π⁰ in 0.31 Megaton·Years Exposure of the Super-Kamiokande Water Cherenkov Detector.¶
Abe, K., Haga, Y., Hayato, Y., Ikeda, M., Iyogi, K., Kameda, J., Kishimoto, Y., et al. (2017). Search for Proton Decay via p → e⁺π⁰ and p → μ⁺π⁰ in 0.31 Megaton·Years Exposure of the Super-Kamiokande Water Cherenkov Detector. Physical Review D, 95(1).
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- The same logic underwrites non-detection bounds — a decay event not observed over a long exposure places a lower bound on a particle's lifetime, the absence constraining the hypothesis.
This sourceNon-observation of any decay event over a long exposure places a lower bound on the proton's partial lifetime (τ/B > 1.6×10³⁴ yr), the canonical case of an absence constraining a hypothesis.
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Super-Kamiokande reports no p→e+π0 candidates in 0.306 megaton-years and from that sets a 90% CL lower limit of 1.6×10^34 years on the partial lifetime.
“No candidates were seen in the p → e+π0 search. ... Lower limits on the proton lifetime are set at τ /B(p → e+π0) > 1.6 × 1034 years”
- The same logic underwrites non-detection bounds — a decay event not observed over a long exposure places a lower bound on a particle's lifetime, the absence constraining the hypothesis.
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