Free Meson Seminars
GADZOOKS! Supernova Neutrinos Without The Annoying Wait
by Prof. Mark Vagins ((Univ. of Tokyo and Univ. of California, Irvine)
Thursday, February 25, 2010
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(Asia/Kolkata)
at Colaba Campus ( AG-69 )
at Colaba Campus ( AG-69 )
Description |
Water Cherenkov detectors have been used for many years to study neutrino interactions and search for nucleon decays. Super-Kamiokande, at 50 kilotons the largest such underground detector in the world, has enjoyed over ten years of interesting and important physics results. Looking to the future, for the last six years R&D on a potential upgrade to the detector has been underway. Enriching Super-K with 100,000 kilograms of a water-soluble gadolinium compound - thereby enabling it to detect thermal neutrons and dramatically improving its performance as a detector for supernova neutrinos, reactor neutrinos, atmospheric neutrinos, and also as a target for the new T2K long-baseline neutrino experiment - will be discussed. |
Organised by | Dr. Nilmani Mathur |
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