Collaboration Institutes
Organization overview
The Hyper-Kamiokande project is the world-leading international scientific research project hosted by the University of Tokyo and High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Japan.
Hyper-Kamiokande International Collaboration
As an international research center for world-class researchers, researchers from many different countries around the world have joined the Hyper-Kamiokande to realize.
As of October 2023, about 600 researchers from 22 countries have participated in the experiment: Armenia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Ukraine, and the United States.
The Hyper-Kamiokande Project has established a formal International Collaboration Researcher Group with the approval of the Japanese government. The Researcher Group has the following governing bodies;
- Institutional Board
- Co-Spokespersons
- M. Shiozawa (ICRR, Japan), F. Di Lodovico (KCL, UK)
- Project Management Board
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Charged with the management of the Hyper-Kamiokande project.
Chair: M. Shiozawa (ICRR, Japan)
F. Di Lodovico (KCL,UK), S. Moriyama (ICRR, Japan), T. Kobayashi (KEK, Japan), K. Hiraide (ICRR, Japan), M. Yokoyama (Tokyo, Japan)
- Executive Board
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Charged with collaboration management policies and approval of rules, etc.
Chair: F. Di Lodovico (KCL, UK),
M. Shiozawa (ICRR, Japan), S. Moriyama (ICRR, Japan), T. Kobayashi (KEK, Japan), K. Hiraide (ICRR, Japan), M. Yokoyama (Tokyo, Japan), T. Nakaya (Kyoto, Japan), Y. Itow (Nagoya, Japan), A. Konaka (TRIUMF, Canada) , L. Labarga (Madrid, Spain), E. Rondio (NCBJ, Poland), E.Radicioni (INFN-Bari, Italy)
- Steering / Resource Board
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Discussion on group resource allocation
A. Ioannisian (Yerevan, Armenia), H. Nunokawa (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), M. Hartz (TRIUMF, Canada), M. Malinsky (Charles, Czech), O. Drapier (IN2P3 – Ecole Polytechnique, France), V. Georges (Saclay, France), S. Roth (Aachen, Germany), L. Ludovici (INFN-Rome, Italy), K.K. Joo (Chonnam, Korea), Alejandro Kadsumi Tomatani Sanchez（Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico), Mohamed Gouighri (Ibn-Tofail University, Morocco), E. Rondio (NCBJ, Warsaw, Poland), Y. Kudenko (INR, Russia), C. Peña Garay (LSC, Spain), E. O’Sullivan (Uppsala, Sweden), A. Rubbia (ETH, Switzerland), D. Wark (STFC,RAL-PPD, UK), V. Aushev (Kyiv, Ukraine), M. Camillo (Virginia, US)
- Technical Board
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Coordinates the research and construction, etc.
Chair: K. Hiraide (ICRR, Japan)
Vice-chair: S. Playfer (Edinburgh, UK)Far Facility Group: S. Nakayama (ICRR, Japan), Y. Asaoka (ICRR, Japan)
Far Detector Group: M. Yokoyama (Tokyo, Japan), C. Bronner (ICRR, Japan)
Physics/Software/Computing Group: M. Ishitsuka (TUS, Japan)
ND280 Group: F. Sanchez (Geneva, Switzerland), T. Kikawa (Kyoto, Japan)
IWCD Group: M. Hartz (TRIUMF, Canada), T. Nakadaira (KEK, Japan), P. de Perio(TRIUMF, Canada), S. Tada (KEK, Japan), M. Ishitsuka (TUS, Japan)
Beamline and Beam Group: K. Sakashita (KEK, Japan), M. Friend (KEK, Japan)
ND Facility Group: T. Nakadaira (KEK, Japan), T. Tsukamoto (KEK, Japan), S. Tada (KEK, Japan)
Integration Group: K. Okumura (ICRR, Japan)
Collaboration Institutes
(November, 2023)
- Institute for Theoretical Physics and Modeling (Armenia)
- Monash University (Australia)
- The University of Melbourne (Australia)
- Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- British Columbia Institute of Technology (Canada)
- Carleton University (Canada)
- University of Regina (Canada)
- University of Toronto (Canada)
- TRIUMF (Canada)
- University of Victoria(Canada)
- University of Winnipeg (Canada)
- York University (Canada)
- Charles University (Czech)
- Palacky University Olomouc (Czech)
- Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ecole Polytechnique (France)
- LPNHE Paris (France)
- ILANCE (France/Japan)
- IRFU, CEA Saclay (France)
- RWTH Aachen University (Germany)
- S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (India)
- Tezpur University (India)
- Indian Institute of Technology – Guwahati (India)
- Indian Institute of Technology – Jodhpur (India)
- Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology (India)
- Politecnico di Bari(Italy)
- Università Federico II di Napoli (Italy)
- Università della Campania “L. Vanvitelli” (Italy)
- Università degli Studi di Salerno (Italy)
- Università di Padova (Italy)
- Università di Pisa (Italy)
- Università di Roma “La Sapienza” (Italy)
- Earthquake Research Institute (Japan)
- ISEE/KMI. Nagoya University (Japan)
- Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
- Kavli IPMU/Utokyo (Japan)
- KEK/J-PARC (Japan)
- Keio University (Japan)
- Kobe University (Japan)
- Kyoto University (Japan)
- Miyagi University of Education (Japan)
- Okayama University (Japan)
- Osaka Metropolitan University (Japan)
- Research Center for Cosmic Neutrinos, ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
- Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
- Tokyo Metropolitan University (Japan)
- University of Tokyo (Japan)
- RCNS, Tohoku University (Japan)
- Tohoku University (Japan)
- Tokyo University of Science (Japan)
- Yokohama National University (Japan)
- Chonnam National University (Korea)
- Dongshin University (Korea)
- Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (Korea)
- KAIST (Korea)
- Kyungpook National University (Korea)
- Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (Korea)
- Sungkyunkwan University (Korea)
- Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara (Mexico)
- Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Sinaloa (Mexico)
- Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico)
- Faculty of Sciences, Hassan II, Casablanca (Morocco)
- Faculty of Sciences, Ibn-Tofail University, Kenitra (Morocco)
- Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed V University, Rabat (Morocco)
- Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Ben Guerir (Morocco)
- AGH University of Science and Technology (Poland)
- Jagiellonian University (Poland)
- Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
- The Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow (Poland)
- National Centre for Nuclear Research (Poland)
- University of Warsaw (Poland)
- Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)
- University of Silesia (Poland)
- Wroclaw University (Poland)
- Institute for Nuclear Research (Russia)
- Moscow State University (Russia)
- P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science (Russia)
- Canfranc Underground Laboratory (LSC) (Spain)
- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) (Spain)
- IFAE (Spain)
- University Autonoma Madrid (Spain)
- University of Oviedo (Spain)
- Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)
- Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxias (Spain)
- University of Girona – AMADE (Spain)
- University of Zaragoza (Spain)
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
- Stockholm University (Sweden)
- Uppsala University (Sweden)
- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (Switzerland)
- Universite de Geneve (Switzerland)
- Imperial College London (UK)
- University of Glasgow (UK)
- Lancaster University (UK)
- University of Liverpool (UK)
- Oxford University (UK)
- King’s College London (UK)
- UKRI/STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK)
- University of Sheffield (UK)
- University of Warwick (UK)
- Kyiv National University (Ukraine)
- Louisiana State University (USA)
- University of California, Irvine (USA)
- Virginia Tech (USA)
- University of Utah (USA)
MOU
- February 14th, 2022
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NCBJ in Poland, KEK and UTokyo sign MoU to promote Hyper-Kamiokande Project
UTokyo website
- May 25th, 2020
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The University of Tokyo and High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) signed a memorandum of understanding to promote the Japan-led Hyper-Kamiokande international scientific research project.
UTokyo and KEK Sign MoU to Promote Hyper-Kamiokande Project (UTokyo website)
- January 31st, 2015
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The Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) of The University of Tokyo and the Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies of the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the Hyper-Kamiokande project.
Memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the Hyper-Kamiokande project
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