PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 301 - 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2017) - Session Neutrino. NU-astrophysical neutrinos
Astrophyisical Neutrino at Hyper-Kamiokande
T. Yano* and  On behalf of the Hyper-Kamiokande Proto-collaboration
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Pre-published on: August 16, 2017
Published on: August 03, 2018
Abstract
Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K) is a proposed next generation underground large water Cherenkov detector. We propose to build two cylindrical water tanks in our experimental period, filled with ultra pure water and surrounded with newly developed photo sensors. In total, it will provide the fiducial volume of 0.19-0.37 Mt. The energies, positions, directions and types of charged particles produced by neutrino interactions are detected using its Cherenkov light in water. Our detector will be located at deep underground to reduce the cosmic muon flux and its spallation products, which is a dominant background for the analysis of the low energy astrophysical neutrinos.
With the fruitful physics research programs planned for the accelerator neutrinos, atomospheric neutrinos and nucleon decay, Hyper-K will play a considerable role in the next neutrino physics frontier, even in the neutrino astrophysics. It will provide remarkable information for both of particle physics and astrophysics with its large statistics of astrophysical neutrino measurements, i.e., solar neutrino, supernova burst neutrinos and supernova relic neutrino. Here, we will discuss about physics potential of Hyper-K at neutrino astrophysics and expected performance of the detector.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.301.0954
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