Current status and perspectives of the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment

by Prof. Francesca Di Lodovico (King's College London)

Tuesday 1 Feb 2022, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Athens

Hyper-Kamiokande is a next-generation water Cherenkov detector that is under construction in Japan. Hyper-Kamiokande construction started in early 2020 and the experiment is expected to start operations in 2027. The baseline design has a fiducial volume 8 times the size of the currently-running Super-Kamiokande detector and is instrumented with new photosensors that offer significant improvements in performance. Combined with the upgraded J-PARC neutrino beam, and near detector suite, Hyper-Kamiokande will be able to measure neutrino oscillations with unprecedented statistical precision, that will include both beam and atmospheric neutrinos. The large size of the detector will also greatly improve the study of astrophysical neutrinos, like solar or supernova neutrinos, as well as contributions to multi-messenger astronomy and dark matter searches and also search for proton decays in a variety of final-state decays.

 

Videoconference via https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88329087308

Di Lodovico_01022022.mp4