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Makoto Sakuda
Researcher at Okayama University
Publications - 246
Citations - 24057
Makoto Sakuda is an academic researcher from Okayama University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Neutrino & Super-Kamiokande. The author has an hindex of 67, co-authored 238 publications receiving 22503 citations. Previous affiliations of Makoto Sakuda include KEK & Kyoto University.
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Evidence for oscillation of atmospheric neutrinos
Y. Fukuda,T. Hayakawa,E. Ichihara,Kunio Inoue,K. Ishihara,H. Ishino,Yoshitaka Itow,Takaaki Kajita,J. Kameda,S. Kasuga,Ken-ichiro Kobayashi,Yohei Kobayashi,Yusuke Koshio,M. Miura,Masayuki Nakahata,S. Nakayama,A. Okada,Ko Okumura,N. Sakurai,Masato Shiozawa,Yoshihiro Suzuki,Y. Takeuchi,Y. Totsuka,Shinya Yamada,M. Earl,Alec Habig,E. Kearns,M. D. Messier,Kate Scholberg,J. L. Stone,Lawrence Sulak,C. W. Walter,M. Goldhaber,T. Barszczxak,D. Casper,W. Gajewski,P. G. Halverson,J. Hsu,W. R. Kropp,L. R. Price,Frederick Reines,Michael B. Smy,Henry W. Sobel,Mark R. Vagins,K. S. Ganezer,W. E. Keig,R. W. Ellsworth,S. Tasaka,J. W. Flanagan,A. Kibayashi,John G. Learned,S. Matsuno,V. J. Stenger,D. Takemori,T. Ishii,Junichi Kanzaki,T. Kobayashi,S. Mine,K. Nakamura,K. Nishikawa,Yuichi Oyama,A. Sakai,Makoto Sakuda,Osamu Sasaki,S. Echigo,M. Kohama,A. T. Suzuki,Todd Haines,Todd Haines,E. Blaufuss,B. K. Kim,R. Sanford,R. Svoboda,M. L. Chen,Z. Conner,Z. Conner,J. A. Goodman,G. W. Sullivan,J. Hill,C. K. Jung,K. Martens,C. Mauger,C. McGrew,E. Sharkey,B. Viren,C. Yanagisawa,W. Doki,Kazumasa Miyano,H. Okazawa,C. Saji,M. Takahata,Y. Nagashima,M. Takita,Takashi Yamaguchi,Minoru Yoshida,Soo-Bong Kim,M. Etoh,K. Fujita,Akira Hasegawa,Takehisa Hasegawa,S. Hatakeyama,T. Iwamoto,M. Koga,Tomoyuki Maruyama,Hiroshi Ogawa,J. Shirai,A. Suzuki,F. Tsushima,Masatoshi Koshiba,M. Nemoto,Kyoshi Nishijima,T. Futagami,Y. Hayato,Y. Kanaya,K. Kaneyuki,Y. Watanabe,D. Kielczewska,D. Kielczewska,R. A. Doyle,J. S. George,A. L. Stachyra,L. Wai,L. Wai,R. J. Wilkes,K. K. Young +124 more
Abstract: We present an analysis of atmospheric neutrino data from a 33.0 kton yr (535-day) exposure of the Super-Kamiokande detector. The data exhibit a zenith angle dependent deficit of muon neutrinos which is inconsistent with expectations based on calculations of the atmospheric neutrino flux. Experimental biases and uncertainties in the prediction of neutrino fluxes and cross sections are unable to explain our observation. The data are consistent, however, with two-flavor ${\ensuremath{
u}}_{\ensuremath{\mu}}\ensuremath{\leftrightarrow}{\ensuremath{
u}}_{\ensuremath{\tau}}$ oscillations with ${sin}^{2}2\ensuremath{\theta}g0.82$ and $5\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}4}l\ensuremath{\Delta}{m}^{2}l6\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}1{0}^{\ensuremath{-}3}\mathrm{eV}{}^{2}$ at 90% confidence level.
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Solar 8B and hep Neutrino Measurements from 1258 Days of Super-Kamiokande Data
Y. Fukuda,M. Ishitsuka,Yoshitaka Itow,Takaaki Kajita,J. Kameda,K. Kaneyuki,K. Kobayashi,Yusuke Koshio,M. Miura,S. Moriyama,Masayuki Nakahata,S. Nakayama,A. Okada,N. Sakurai,Masato Shiozawa,Yoshihiro Suzuki,H. Takeuchi,Y. Takeuchi,T. Toshito,Y. Totsuka,Shoichi Yamada,Shantanu Desai,M. Earl,E. Kearns,M. D. Messier,Kate Scholberg,Kate Scholberg,J. L. Stone,L. R. Sulak,C. W. Walter,M. Goldhaber,T. Barszczak,David William Casper,W. Gajewski,W. R. Kropp,S. Mine,D. W. Liu,L. R. Price,M. B. Smy,Henry W. Sobel,M. R. Vagins,Todd Haines,D. Kielczewska,K. S. Ganezer,W. E. Keig,R. W. Ellsworth,S. Tasaka,A. Kibayashi,John G. Learned,S. Matsuno,D. Takemori,Y. Hayato,T. Ishii,Takashi Kobayashi,Koji Nakamura,Y. Obayashi,Y. Oyama,A. Sakai,Makoto Sakuda,M. Kohama,Atsumu Suzuki,T. Inagaki,Tsuyoshi Nakaya,K. Nishikawa,E. Blaufuss,S. Dazeley,R. Svoboda,J. A. Goodman,G. Guillian,G. W. Sullivan,D. Turcan,Alec Habig,J. Hill,C. K. Jung,K. Martens,K. Martens,Magdalena Malek,C. Mauger,C. McGrew,E. Sharkey,B. Viren,C. Yanagisawa,C. Mitsuda,K. Miyano,C. Saji,T. Shibata,Y. Kajiyama,Y. Nagashima,K. Nitta,M. Takita,Minoru Yoshida,Heekyong Kim,Soo-Bong Kim,J. Yoo,H. Okazawa,T. Ishizuka,M. Etoh,Y. Gando,Takehisa Hasegawa,Kunio Inoue,K. Ishihara,Tomoyuki Maruyama,J. Shirai,A. Suzuki,Masatoshi Koshiba,Y. Hatakeyama,Y. Ichikawa,M. Koike,Kyoshi Nishijima,H. Fujiyasu,Hirokazu Ishino,M. Morii,Y. Watanabe,U. Golebiewska,S. C. Boyd,A. L. Stachyra,R. J. Wilkes,B. Lee +117 more
TL;DR: Solar neutrino measurements from 1258 days of data from the Super-Kamiokande detector are presented and the recoil electron energy spectrum is consistent with no spectral distortion.
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The Super-Kamiokande detector
S. Fukuda,Y. Fukuda,T. Hayakawa,E. Ichihara,M. Ishitsuka,Yoshitaka Itow,Takaaki Kajita,J. Kameda,K. Kaneyuki,S. Kasuga,K. Kobayashi,Y. Kobayashi,Yusuke Koshio,M. Miura,S. Moriyama,Masayuki Nakahata,S. Nakayama,Toshio Namba,Y. Obayashi,A. Okada,M. Oketa,Kimihiro Okumura,T. Oyabu,N. Sakurai,Masato Shiozawa,Yoshihiro Suzuki,Y. Takeuchi,T. Toshito,Y. Totsuka,Shoichi Yamada,S. Desai,M. Earl,J. T. Hong,E. Kearns,M. Masuzawa,M. D. Messier,M. D. Messier,J. L. Stone,L. R. Sulak,C. W. Walter,W. Wang,Kate Scholberg,T. Barszczak,David William Casper,D. W. Liu,W. Gajewski,P. G. Halverson,J. Hsu,W. R. Kropp,S. Mine,L. R. Price,Frederick Reines,M. B. Smy,Henry W. Sobel,M. R. Vagins,K. S. Ganezer,W. E. Keig,R. W. Ellsworth,S. Tasaka,J. W. Flanagan,A. Kibayashi,John G. Learned,S. Matsuno,V. J. Stenger,Y. Hayato,T. Ishii,A. K. Ichikawa,Junichi Kanzaki,T. Kobayashi,T. Maruyama,Koji Nakamura,Y. Oyama,A. Sakai,Makoto Sakuda,Osamu Sasaki,S. Echigo,T. Iwashita,M. Kohama,Atsumu Suzuki,Masaya Hasegawa,T. Inagaki,I. Kato,H. Maesaka,Tsuyoshi Nakaya,K. Nishikawa,Shuji Yamamoto,Todd Haines,Todd Haines,B. K. Kim,R. Sanford,R. Svoboda,E. Blaufuss,M. L. Chen,Z. Conner,Z. Conner,J. A. Goodman,E. Guillian,G. W. Sullivan,D. Turcan,Alec Habig,M. Ackerman,Florian Goebel,J. Hill,J. Hill,C. K. Jung,T. Kato,D. Kerr,Magdalena Malek,K. Martens,C. Mauger,C. McGrew,E. Sharkey,B. Viren,B. Viren,C. Yanagisawa,W. Doki,S. Inaba,K. Ito,M. Kirisawa,M. Kitaguchi,C. Mitsuda,K. Miyano,C. Saji,M. Takahata,M. Takahashi,K. Higuchi,Y. Kajiyama,A. Kusano,Y. Nagashima,K. Nitta,M. Takita,Takashi Yamaguchi,Minoru Yoshida,Hyosun Kim,Soo-Bong Kim,J. Yoo,H. Okazawa,M. Etoh,K. Fujita,Y. Gando,Akira Hasegawa,T. Hasegawa,S. Hatakeyama,Kunio Inoue,K. Ishihara,T. Iwamoto,M. Koga,I. Nishiyama,Hiroshi Ogawa,J. Shirai,A. Suzuki,T. Takayama,F. Tsushima,M. Koshiba,Y. Ichikawa,T. Hashimoto,Y. Hatakeyama,M. Koike,T. Horiuchi,M. Nemoto,K. Nishijima,H. Takeda,H. Fujiyasu,T. Futagami,Hirokazu Ishino,Y. Kanaya,Mikio Morii,H. Nishihama,Hiroaki Nishimura,Toshio Suzuki,Y. Watanabe,D. Kielczewska,D. Kielczewska,U. Golebiewska,H. G. Berns,S. B. Boyd,S. B. Boyd,R. A. Doyle,J. S. George,J. S. George,A. L. Stachyra,A. L. Stachyra,L. Wai,L. Wai,R. J. Wilkes,K. K. Young,H. Kobayashi +186 more
TL;DR: Super-Kamiokande is the world's largest water Cherenkov detector, with net mass 50,000 tons as discussed by the authors, which collected 1678 live-days of data, observing neutrinos from the Sun, Earth's atmosphere, and the K2K long-baseline neutrino beam with high efficiency.
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Indications of neutrino oscillation in a 250 km long-baseline experiment.
M. H. Ahn,Shigeki Aoki,H. C. Bhang,S. B. Boyd,David William Casper,J. H. Choi,S. Fukuda,Y. Fukuda,W. Gajewski,T. Hara,Masaya Hasegawa,Takehisa Hasegawa,Y. Hayato,J. Hill,A. K. Ichikawa,A. Ikeda,T. Inagaki,T. Ishida,T. Ishii,M. Ishitsuka,Yoshitaka Itow,T. Iwashita,H. I. Jang,J. S. Jang,E. J. Jeon,C. K. Jung,Takaaki Kajita,J. Kameda,K. Kaneyuki,I. Kato,E. Kearns,A. Kibayashi,D. Kielczewska,Ken-ichiro Kobayashi,Beom Jun Kim,C. O. Kim,J. Y. Kim,S. B. Kim,Takashi Kobayashi,M. Kohama,Yusuke Koshio,W. R. Kropp,John G. Learned,S. H. Lim,I. T. Lim,H. Maesaka,K. Martens,Tomoyuki Maruyama,S. Matsuno,C. Mauger,C. McGrew,S. Mine,M. Miura,Kazumasa Miyano,Shigetaka Moriyama,Masayuki Nakahata,Koji Nakamura,Itsuo Nakano,F. Nakata,Tsuyoshi Nakaya,Shoei Nakayama,Toshio Namba,K. Nishikawa,Shogo Nishiyama,Susumu Noda,A. Obayashi,A. Okada,T. Ooyabu,Yuichi Oyama,M. Y. Pac,Hwangseo Park,Makoto Sakuda,Nobuyuki Sakurai,N. Sasao,Kate Scholberg,E. Sharkey,Masato Shiozawa,H. So,H. W. Sobel,A. L. Stachyra,J. L. Stone,Y. Suga,L. R. Sulak,Atsumu Suzuki,Yasunari Suzuki,Y. Takeuchi,N. Tamura,T. Toshito,Y. Totsuka,Mark R. Vagins,C. W. Walter,R. J. Wilkes,Shinya Yamada,Shoji Yamamoto,C. Yanagisawa,H. Yokoyama,J. Yoo,Minoru Yoshida,J. Zalipska +98 more
TL;DR: The K2K experiment observed indications of neutrino oscillation after 250 km flight of υμ. as mentioned in this paper The observed number of events in the data corresponding to 4.8 x 1019 protons on target is 56, while 80.1 5.4 + 6.2 is expected.
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Measurement of atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters by Super-Kamiokande I
Y. Ashie,J. Hosaka,K. Ishihara,Yoshitaka Itow,J. Kameda,Yusuke Koshio,A. Minamino,C. Mitsuda,M. Miura,Shigetaka Moriyama,Masayuki Nakahata,Toshio Namba,R. Nambu,Y. Obayashi,Masato Shiozawa,Yoshihiro Suzuki,Y. Takeuchi,K. Taki,Shinya Yamada,M. Ishitsuka,Takaaki Kajita,K. Kaneyuki,Shoei Nakayama,A. Okada,Ko Okumura,C. Saji,Y. Takenaga,S. Clark,Shantanu Desai,E. Kearns,S. Likhoded,J. L. Stone,L. R. Sulak,W. Wang,M. Goldhaber,David William Casper,J. P. Cravens,W. Gajewski,W. R. Kropp,D. W. Liu,S. Mine,Michael B. Smy,Henry W. Sobel,C. W. Sterner,Mark R. Vagins,K. S. Ganezer,John Hill,W. E. Keig,J. S. Jang,J. Y. Kim,I. T. Lim,Kate Scholberg,C. W. Walter,R. W. Ellsworth,S. Tasaka,G. Guillian,A. Kibayashi,John G. Learned,S. Matsuno,D. Takemori,M. D. Messier,Y. Hayato,A. K. Ichikawa,T. Ishida,T. Ishii,T. Iwashita,Takashi Kobayashi,T. Maruyama,Koji Nakamura,K. Nitta,Yuichi Oyama,Makoto Sakuda,Y. Totsuka,Atsumu Suzuki,Masaya Hasegawa,K. Hayashi,I. Kato,H. Maesaka,Taichi Morita,Tsuyoshi Nakaya,K. Nishikawa,T. Sasaki,S. Ueda,Shoji Yamamoto,Todd Haines,Todd Haines,S. Dazeley,S. Hatakeyama,R. Svoboda,E. Blaufuss,J. A. Goodman,G. W. Sullivan,D. Turcan,Alec Habig,Y. Fukuda,C. K. Jung,T. Kato,Katsuhiro Kobayashi,Magdalena Malek,C. Mauger,C. McGrew,A. Sarrat,E. Sharkey,C. Yanagisawa,T. Toshito,Kazumasa Miyano,N. Tamura,J. Ishii,Y. Kuno,Minoru Yoshida,S. B. Kim,J. Yoo,H. Okazawa,T. Ishizuka,Y. Choi,H. Seo,Y. Gando,Takehisa Hasegawa,Kunio Inoue,J. Shirai,A. Suzuki,Masatoshi Koshiba,Y. Nakajima,Kyoshi Nishijima,T. Harada,Hirokazu Ishino,Y. Watanabe,D. Kielczewska,D. Kielczewska,J. Zalipska,H. G. Berns,R. Gran,K. K. Shiraishi,A. L. Stachyra,K. Washburn,R. J. Wilkes +135 more
TL;DR: In this article, a combined analysis of fully-contained, partially-contained and upward-going muon atmospheric neutrino data from a 1489 d exposure of the Super-Kamiokande detector is presented.