Details of Super-Kamiokande

The follwing explanations are based on Yusuke Koshio's PhD thesis(1998). Some values (trigger threshold and so on) have been changed.

 

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

 

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