Super-Kamiokande

Examples of events from Super-Kamiokande

  • On-line DISPLAY
  • Perspective event pictures from 'tscan'

Super-Kamiokande detector

Detection method

  • Imaging water Cherenkov detector
  • Solar neutrino interactions in the detector

Detector

  • Detector outline
  • Water purification system
  • Radon free air system
  • Photomultiplier tubes
  • Electronics and data acquisition
  • Outer detector and related topics

Calibration

  • Relative gain of photomultiplier
  • Single photo-electron distribution
  • Timing of photomultiplier
  • Water transparency -- Direct measurement
    • Measurement by decay electrons
    • Measurement by penetrating muons

Energy calibration -- LINAC

  • Nickel gamma ray source
  • Muon decays

Trigger efficiency

Physical topics around SK experiment

  • Solar neutrino
  • Atmospheric neutrino
  • Nucleon decay
  • Neutrinos from supernova burst
  • Long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment: K2K
  • Long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment: T2K
  • Massive neutrino dark matter search
  • Gamma-ray burst search
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