Improved search for invisible modes of nucleon decay in water with the SNO+ detector
Creators: name: Collaboration, SNO+
name: :
name: Allega, A.
name: Anderson, M. R.
name: Andringa, S.
name: Askins, M.
name: Auty, D. J.
name: Bacon, A.
name: Barros, N.
name: Barão, F.
name: Bayes, R.
name: Beier, E. W.
name: Bezerra, T. S.
name: Bialek, A.
name: Biller, S. D.
name: Blucher, E.
name: Caden, E.
name: Callaghan, E. J.
name: Cheng, S.
name: Chen, M.
name: Chkvorets, O.
name: Cleveland, B.
name: Cookman, D.
name: Corning, J.
name: Cox, M. A.
name: Dehghani, R.
name: Deluce, C.
name: Depatie, M. M.
name: Dittmer, J.
name: Dixon, K. H.
name: Di Lodovico, F.
name: Falk, E.
name: Fatemighomi, N.
name: Ford, R.
name: Frankiewicz, K.
name: Gaur, A.
name: González-Reina, O. I.
name: Gooding, D.
name: Grant, C.
name: Grove, J.
name: Hallin, A. L.
name: Hallman, D.
name: Hartnell, J.
name: Heintzelman, W. J.
name: Helmer, R. L.
name: Hu, J.
name: Hunt-Stokes, R.
name: Hussain, S. M. A.
name: Inácio, A. S.
name: Jillings, C. J.
name: Kaptanoglu, T.
name: Khaghani, P.
name: Khan, H.
name: Klein, J. R.
name: Kormos, L. L.
name: Krar, B.
name: Kraus, C.
name: Krauss, C. B.
name: Kroupová, T.
name: Lam, I.
name: Land, B. J.
name: Lawson, I.
name: Lebanowski, L.
name: Lee, J.
name: Lefebvre, C.
name: Lidgard, J.
name: Lin, Y. H.
name: Lozza, V.
name: Luo, M.
name: Maio, A.
name: Manecki, S.
name: Maneira, J.
name: Martin, R. D.
name: McCauley, N.
name: McDonald, A. B.
name: Meyer, M.
name: Mills, C.
name: Morton-Blake, I.
name: Naugle, S.
name: Nolan, L. J.
name: O'Keeffe, H. M.
name: Gann, G. D. Orebi
name: Page, J.
name: Parker, W.
name: Paton, J.
name: Peeters, S. J. M.
name: Pickard, L.
name: Ravi, P.
name: Reichold, A.
name: Riccetto, S.
name: Richardson, R.
name: Rigan, M.
name: Rose, J.
name: Rumleskie, J.
name: Semenec, I.
name: Skensved, P.
name: Smiley, M.
name: Svoboda, R.
name: Tam, B.
name: Tseng, J.
name: Turner, E.
name: Valder, S.
name: Veinot, J. G. C.
name: Virtue, C. J.
name: Vázquez-Jáuregui, E.
name: Wang, J.
name: Ward, M.
name: Weigand, J. J.
name: Wilson, J. D.
name: Wilson, J. R.
name: Wright, A.
name: Yanez, J. P.
name: Yang, S.
name: Yeh, M.
name: Yu, S.
name: Zhang, T.
name: Zhang, Y.
name: Zuber, K.
name: Zummo, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper reports results from a search for single and multi-nucleon disappearance from the $^{16}$O nucleus in water within the \snoplus{} detector using all of the available data. These so-called "invisible" decays do not directly deposit energy within the detector but are instead detected through their subsequent nuclear de-excitation and gamma-ray emission. New limits are given for the partial lifetimes: $τ(n\rightarrow inv) &gt; 9.0\times10^{29}$ years, $τ(p\rightarrow inv) &gt; 9.6\times10^{29}$ years, $τ(nn\rightarrow inv) &gt; 1.5\times10^{28}$ years, $τ(np\rightarrow inv) &gt; 6.0\times10^{28}$ years, and $τ(pp\rightarrow inv) &gt; 1.1\times10^{29}$ years at 90\% Bayesian credibility level (with a prior uniform in rate). All but the ($nn\rightarrow inv$) results improve on existing limits by a factor of about 3.