| DATE: |
2013-01-11 13:30 - 14:30 |
| PLACE: |
Kenkyu Honkan 1F, Meeting Room 1 |
| TITLE: |
GADZOOKS! How to See Extragalactic Neutrinos By 2016 |
| CONTACT: |
Akira MIZUTA, misuta-AT-post.kek.jp |
| SPEAKER: |
Prof. Mark Vagins (Kavli IPMU, U. of Tokyo) |
| LANGUAGE: |
English |
| URL: |
http://theory-center.kek.jp/theory/archives/s_c/seminar |
| ABSTRACT: |
Water Cherenkov detectors have been used for many years to study neutrino interactions and search for nucleon decays. Super-Kamiokande, at 50 kilotons the largest such underground detector in the world, has enjoyed over fifteen years of interesting and important physics results. Looking to the future, for the last nine years R&D on a potential upgrade to the detector has been underway. Enriching Super-K with 100,000 kilograms of a water-soluble gadolinium compound - thereby enabling it to detect thermal neutrons and dramatically improving its performance as a detector for supernova neutrinos, reactor neutrinos, atmospheric neutrinos, and also as a target for the T2K long-baseline neutrino experiment - will be discussed. |
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