Super-Kamiokande Operations (Final Scientific/Technical Report)
- University of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
The Super-Kamiokande experiment (SK, or Super-K) is based on a 50-kton water Cherenkov detector with 11,129 photomultiplier tubes. The detector is located in the Kamioka mine near Toyama, Japan. The detector has been operating since 1996. The collaboration is now around 165 people, mostly from the U.S. and Japan, but including Canada, the UK, S. Korea, Italy, China, Poland, France and Spain. Notable accomplishments so far include: the discovery of neutrino oscillations using atmospheric and solar neutrinos (and thus demonstrating that neutrinos have mass), the confirmation of these oscillations as the far detector of the K2K long baseline experiment, the first observation of ve appearance and non-zero θ13 in a long baseline (T2K) beam, the world’s strictest limits on proton decay, the world’s best limits on indirect dark matter annihilation at moderate energies, sensitivity to a galactic supernova over most of the running time since 1996, the world’s best limit on diffuse supernova neutrinos, the first direct indication of matter effects on neutrino oscillations, and a number of other published results and theses in particle astrophysics.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0009879
- OSTI ID:
- 2280638
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-UCI-0009879
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Atmospheric neutrino oscillation analysis with external constraints in Super-Kamiokande I-IV
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journal | April 2018 |
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