Hyper-Kamiokande

Hyper-Kamiokande is a neutrino observatory being constructed on the site of the Kamioka Observatory, near Kamioka, Japan.

This project started in 2010 as a successor to Super-Kamiokande. It was ranked as among the 28 top priority projects of the Japanese government. In the fall of 2017 it was announced that construction would start in 2018, with scientific observations to begin in 2025.[1] Thirteen countries from three continents are involved in this program.

Hyper-Kamiokande will have a tank with 1000 million liters of ultrapure water (UPW), 20 times larger than the tank for Super-Kamiokande. This increased capacity will be accompanied by a proportional growth in the number of sensors. The tank for Hyper-Kamiokande will be a double cylinder 2 × 250 meters long, always approximately 40 × 40 meters, and buried 600 meters deep to reduce interference from cosmic radiation.

Bibliography

  • Di Lodovico, Francesca (2017). "The Hyper-Kamiokande Experiment". Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 888: 012020. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/888/1/012020.
  • Normile, D (2015). "Particle physics. Japanese neutrino physicists think really big". Science. 347 (6222): 598. doi:10.1126/science.347.6222.598. PMID 25657225.

References

  1. ↑ Normile 2015.

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