Super-Kamiokande
Sign in to saveis a neutrino observatory located under Mount Ikeno near the city of Hida, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo with the help of an international team. It is located 1,000 m (3,300 ft) underground in the Mozumi Mine in Hida's Kamioka area. The observatory was designed to detect high-energy neutrinos, to search for proton decay, study solar and atmospheric neutrinos, and keep watch for supernovae in the Milky Way galaxy.
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28 sectionsContents
- Description
- History
- Detector
- SK-IV upgrade
- SuperKGd
- Water tank
- PMTs and associate structure
- Monitoring system
- Online monitoring system
- Realtime supernova monitor
- Slow control monitor and offline process monitor
- Research
- Solar neutrino
- Atmospheric neutrino
- K2K Experiment
- T2K Experiment
- Proton decay
- Purification
- Water purification system
- Air purification system
- Data processing
- In Kamioka
- In the United States
- Results
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
- External links
is a neutrino observatory located under Mount Ikeno near the city of Hida, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo with the help of an international team. It is located 1,000 m (3,300 ft) underground in the Mozumi Mine in Hida's Kamioka area. The observatory was designed to detect high-energy neutrinos, to search for proton decay, study solar and atmospheric neutrinos, and keep watch for supernovae in the Milky Way galaxy.
==Description== Super-K is located underground in the Mozumi Mine in Hida's Kamioka area. It consists of a cylindrical stainless steel tank that is tall and in diameter holding 50,220 tonnes (55,360 US tons) of ultrapure water. The tank volume is divided by a stainless steel superstructure into an inner detector (ID) region, which is in height and in diameter, and outer detector (OD) which consists of the remaining tank volume. Mounted on the superstructure are 11,146 photomultiplier tubes (PMT) in diameter that face the ID and 1,885 PMTs that face the OD. A Tyvek and blacksheet barrier attached to the superstructure optically separates the ID and OD.