Suupaa Kamioka Jikken
Super-Kamiokande
at the
University of
Hawai`i
The 50,000 ton water Cherenkov detector buried deep beneath the Japanese alps has produced
the first convincing evidence for atmospheric neutrino oscillations and thus mass, and has
produced the most cited paper ever in experimental particle physics. The instrument is
also used to study solar neutrinos and to search for nucleon decay, supernovae, and a
variety of astrophysical neutrinos and unusual sources and particles, such as monopoles,
WIMPS, etc. The detector has operated since 1996, and restarted operations after a one
year hiatus (due to PMT implosion in 11/01) in late 2002. A further upgrade is taking
place in late 2005 - early 2006. The detector is expected to run for about another ten
years.
News:
Go here for updates on SuperK recovery progress
Atsuko Kibayashi's Thesis, analysis of muon neutrino oscillations
in SuperK using 1496 days of data and a 3D flux prediction, June 2002.
Announcement of first neutrinos in SuperK from KEK by the K2K
Collaboration, of which UH is a member, 28 June 1999.
Super-Kamiokande
Claim of Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations and Mass
This page has been updated, Aug 2000.
Publications and Notes:
Several Non-Technical Notes about Neutrinos:
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"Neutrinos Have Mass! a six page summary of the state of
research relating to neutrino oscillations and mass (6/99).
- "An
Introduction to Neutrino Astronomy", a five page non-technical
description of the motivation for undertaking neutrino astronomy,
and the present state of attempts to open a new window on the
universe (5/99).
SuperK Project Members at UH:
Travel Information
Related Pages
US Collaboration
- Boston University
(BU, Boston, MA)
- Brookhaven National
Laboratory (BNL, Upton, NY)
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University of California at Irvine(UCI, Irvine, CA)
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California State University at Dominguez Hills
(CSUDH, Dominguez Hills, CA)
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George Mason University (GMU, Fairfax, VA)
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University of Hawai'i at Manoa
(UH, Honolulu, HI)
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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL, Los Alamos, NM)
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Louisiana State University (LSU, Baton Rouge, LA)
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University of Maryland (UMD, College Park, MD)
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State University of New York at Stoney Brook
(SUNY, Stony Brook, NY)
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University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)
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University of Washington (UW, Seattle, WA)
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K2K US Collaboration Home Page
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Off-Site Super Kamiokande Analysis On-Site WWW Server
Japan Collaboration
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Institute for Cosmic Ray Research
(ICRR, Tanashi-shi, Tokyo):
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National Laboratory for High Energy Physics
(KEK, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki)
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Tokai University (Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa)
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Osaka University
(Nagashima Lab, Toyonaka-shi, Osaka)
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Niigata University (Niigata-shi, Niigata)
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Kobe University (Kobe-shi, Hyogo)
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Tokyo Institute of Technology (Meguro-ku, Tokyo)
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Gifu University (Gifu-shi, Gifu)
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Institute of Nuclear Study (INS) at University of Tokyo
(Tanashi-shi, Tokyo)
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Tohoku University (Sendai-shi, Miyagi)
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Miyagi University of Education (Sendai-shi, Miyagi)
Various Lists
Pictures of Super-Kamiokande
Last modified: 02.08.09
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