Speaker
Description
Hyper-Kamiokande is the next-generation underground water Cherenkov detector being built in Japan and will study neutrinos originating from the J-PARC accelerator complex, the atmosphere and astrophysical sources. Its rich physics program includes the measurement of the leptonic CP-violation phase, neutrino astronomy, as well as the search for proton decay.
Hyper-Kamiokande consists of a large cylindrical tank with 258 thousand tonnes of ultrapure water as its detection medium and it is placed 295 m from the neutrino beam production at J-PARC. The project also consists of a suite of near detectors including a movable 500 tonne Water Cherenkov detector placed 1 km from J-PARC called the Intermediate Water Cherenkov Detector (IWCD) and it is used to constrain major systematic uncertainties related to neutrino interactions in the water.
In this talk I will present an overview of the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment, details of its detector design and provide the construction status.
| Keyword-1 | Neutrino physics |
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| Keyword-2 | Water Cherenkov detector |