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  • Tada, T; Hosokawa, K; Kameda, J; Kaneshima, R; Miki, S; Mine, S; Moriyama, S; Shimizu, K; Sonoda, Y; Suzuki, Y; Han, S; Kajita, T; Okumura, K; Tashiro, T; Tomiya, T; Wang, X; Megias, G D; Fernandez, P; Zaldivar, B; Kearns, E; Raaf, J L; Locke, S; Takhistov, V; Hill, J; Bodur, B; Scholberg, K; Beauchêne, A; Drapier, O; Rogly, R; Nakamura, T; Choi, K; Cao, S; Anthony, L H V; De Rosa, G; Collazuol, G; Iacob, F; Lamoureux, M; Ludovici, L; Périssé, L; Nishimura, Y; Okazaki, R; Akutsu, R; Hasegawa, T; Matsubara, T; Oyama, Y; Tsukamoto, T; Goldsack, A; Migenda, J; Xie, Z; Takagi, Y; Takeuchi, Y; Feng, J; Z Hu; Wendell, R A; McCauley, N; Tarant, A; Itow, Y; Ninomiya, K; Mijakowski, P; Prabhu, Y S; Jia, M; Jiang, J; Ishino, H; Wark, D; Holin, A; Nova, F; Jung, S; McElwee, J M; Thiesse, M D; Thompson, L F; Wilson, S T; Okazawa, H; Kim, S B; Seo, J W; I Yu; Ichikawa, A K; Nishijima, K; Nakagiri, K; Nakajima, Y; Watanabe, E; de Perio, P; Vagins, M R; Xia, J; Kuze, M; Ito, H; Yamauchi, K; Yoshida, T; Martin, J F; Gaur, R; Gousy-Leblanc, V; X Li; Xu, B D; Posiadala-Zezula, M; Edwards, R; Hadley, D; O'Flaherty, M; Richards, B; Jamieson, B; Sano, S; Wada, K

    arXiv.org, 03/2024
    Paper, Journal Article

    We present the results of the charge ratio (\(R\)) and polarization (\(P^{\mu}_{0}\)) measurements using the decay electron events collected from 2008 September to 2022 June by the Super-Kamiokande detector. Because of its underground location and long operation, we performed high precision measurements by accumulating cosmic-ray muons. We measured the muon charge ratio to be \(R=1.32 \pm 0.02\) \((\mathrm{stat.}{+}\mathrm{syst.})\) at \(E_{\mu}\cos \theta_{\mathrm{Zenith}}=0.7^{+0.3}_{-0.2}\) \(\mathrm{TeV}\), where \(E_{\mu}\) is the muon energy and \(\theta_{\mathrm{Zenith}}\) is the zenith angle of incoming cosmic-ray muons. This result is consistent with the Honda flux model while this suggests a tension with the \(\pi K\) model of \(1.9\sigma\). We also measured the muon polarization at the production location to be \(P^{\mu}_{0}=0.52 \pm 0.02\) \((\mathrm{stat.}{+}\mathrm{syst.})\) at the muon momentum of \(0.9^{+0.6}_{-0.1}\) \(\mathrm{TeV}/c\) at the surface of the mountain; this also suggests a tension with the Honda flux model of \(1.5\sigma\). This is the most precise measurement ever to experimentally determine the cosmic-ray muon polarization near \(1~\mathrm{TeV}/c\). These measurement results are useful to improve the atmospheric neutrino simulations.