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