Hyper-Kamiokande Design Report
Abstract
On the strength of a double Nobel prize winning experiment (Super)Kamiokande and an extremely successful long baseline neutrino programme, the third generation Water Cherenkov detector, Hyper-Kamiokande, is being developed by an international collaboration as a leading worldwide experiment based in Japan. The Hyper-Kamiokande detector will be hosted in the Tochibora mine, about 295 km away from the J-PARC proton accelerator research complex in Tokai, Japan. The currently existing accelerator will be steadily upgraded to reach a MW beam by the start of the experiment. A suite of near detectors will be vital to constrain the beam for neutrino oscillation measurements. A new cavern will be excavated at the Tochibora mine to host the detector. The experiment will be the largest underground water Cherenkov detector in the world and will be instrumented with new technology photosensors, faster and with higher quantum efficiency than the ones in Super-Kamiokande. The science that will be developed will be able to shape the future theoretical framework and generations of experiments. Hyper-Kamiokande will be able to measure with the highest precision the leptonic CP violation that could explain the baryon asymmetry in the Universe. The experiment also has a demonstrated excellent capability to search for proton decay, providing a significant improvement in discovery sensitivity over current searches for the proton lifetime. The atmospheric neutrinos will allow to determine the neutrino mass ordering and, together with the beam, able to precisely test the three-flavour neutrino oscillation paradigm and search for new phenomena. A strong astrophysical programme will be carried out at the experiment that will detect supernova neutrinos and will measure precisely solar neutrino oscillation.
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@article{arxiv.1805.04163,
title = {Hyper-Kamiokande Design Report},
author = {Hyper-Kamiokande Proto-Collaboration and : and K. Abe and Ke. Abe and H. Aihara and A. Aimi and R. Akutsu and C. Andreopoulos and I. Anghel and L. H. V. Anthony and M. Antonova and Y. Ashida and V. Aushev and M. Barbi and G. J. Barker and G. Barr and P. Beltrame and V. Berardi and M. Bergevin and S. Berkman and L. Berns and T. Berry and S. Bhadra and D. Bravo-Berguño and F. d. M. Blaszczyk and A. Blondel and S. Bolognesi and S. B. Boyd and A. Bravar and C. Bronner and M. Buizza Avanzini and F. S. Cafagna and A. Cole and R. Calland and S. Cao and S. L. Cartwright and M. G. Catanesi and C. Checchia and Z. Chen-Wishart and J. H. Choi and K. Choi and J. Coleman and G. Collazuol and G. Cowan and L. Cremonesi and T. Dealtry and G. De Rosa and C. Densham and D. Dewhurst and E. L. Drakopoulou and F. Di Lodovico and O. Drapier and J. Dumarchez and P. Dunne and M. Dziewiecki and S. Emery and A. Esmaili and A. Evangelisti and E. Fernandez-Martinez and T. Feusels and A. Finch and A. Fiorentini and G. Fiorillo and M. Fitton and K. Frankiewicz and M. Friend and Y. Fujii and Y. Fukuda and D. Fukuda and K. Ganezer and C. Giganti and M. Gonin and N. Grant and P. Gumplinger and D. R. Hadley and B. Hartfiel and M. Hartz and Y. Hayato and K. Hayrapetyan and J. Hill and S. Hirota and S. Horiuchi and A. K. Ichikawa and T. Iijima and M. Ikeda and J. Imber and K. Inoue and J. Insler and R. A. Intonti and A. Ioannisian and T. Ishida and H. Ishino and M. Ishitsuka and Y. Itow and K. Iwamoto and A. Izmaylov and B. Jamieson and H. I. Jang and J. S. Jang and S. H. Jeon and M. Jiang and P. Jonsson and K. K. Joo and A. Kaboth and C. Kachulis and T. Kajita and J. Kameda and Y. Kataoka and T. Katori and K. Kayrapetyan and E. Kearns and M. Khabibullin and A. Khotjantsev and J. H. Kim and J. Y. Kim and S. B. Kim and S. Y. Kim and S. King and Y. Kishimoto and T. Kobayashi and M. Koga and A. Konaka and L. L. Kormos and Y. Koshio and A. Korzenev and K. L. Kowalik and W. R. Kropp and Y. Kudenko and R. Kurjata and T. Kutter and M. Kuze and L. Labarga and J. Lagoda and P. J. J. Lasorak and M. Laveder and M. Lawe and J. G. Learned and I. T. Lim and T. Lindner and R. P. Litchfield and A. Longhin and P. Loverre and T. Lou and L. Ludovici and W. Ma and L. Magaletti and K. Mahn and M. Malek and L. Maret and C. Mariani and K. Martens and Ll. Marti and J. F. Martin and J. Marzec and S. Matsuno and E. Mazzucato and M. McCarthy and N. McCauley and K. S. McFarland and C. McGrew and A. Mefodiev and P. Mermod and C. Metelko and M. Mezzetto and J. Migenda and P. Mijakowski and H. Minakata and A. Minamino and S. Mine and O. Mineev and A. Mitra and M. Miura and T. Mochizuki and J. Monroe and D. H. Moon and S. Moriyama and T. Mueller and F. Muheim and K. Murase and F. Muto and M. Nakahata and Y. Nakajima and K. Nakamura and T. Nakaya and S. Nakayama and C. Nantais and M. Needham and T. Nicholls and Y. Nishimura and E. Noah and F. Nova and J. Nowak and H. Nunokawa and Y. Obayashi and H. M. O'Keeffe and Y. Okajima and K. Okumura and Yu. Onishchuk and E. O'Sullivan and L. O'Sullivan and T. Ovsiannikova and R. A. Owen and Y. Oyama and M. Y. Pac and V. Palladino and J. L. Palomino and V. Paolone and W. Parker and S. Parsa and D. Payne and J. D. Perkin and C. Pidcott and E. Pinzon Guerra and S. Playfer and B. Popov and M. Posiadala-Zezula and J. M. Poutissou and A. Pritchard and N. W. Prouse and G. Pronost and P. Przewlocki and B. Quilain and E. Radicioni and P. N. Ratoff and F. Retiere and C. Riccio and B. Richards and E. Rondio and H. J. Rose and C. Rott and S. D. Rountree and A. C. Ruggeri and A. Rychter and R. Sacco and M. Sakuda and M. C. Sanchez and E. Scantamburlo and M. Scott and S. M. Sedgwick and Y. Seiya and T. Sekiguchi and H. Sekiya and S. H. Seo and D. Sgalaberna and R. Shah and A. Shaikhiev and I. Shimizu and M. Shiozawa and Y. Shitov and S. Short and C. Simpson and G. Sinnis and M. B. Smy and S. Snow and J. Sobczyk and H. W. Sobel and Y. Sonoda and R. Spina and T. Stewart and J. L. Stone and Y. Suda and Y. Suwa and Y. Suzuki and A. T. Suzuki and R. Svoboda and M. Taani and R. Tacik and A. Takeda and A. Takenaka and A. Taketa and Y. Takeuchi and V. Takhistov and H. A. Tanaka and H. K. M. Tanaka and H. Tanaka and R. Terri and M. Thiesse and L. F. Thompson and M. Thorpe and S. Tobayama and C. Touramanis and T. Towstego and T. Tsukamoto and K. M. Tsui and M. Tzanov and Y. Uchida and M. R. Vagins and G. Vasseur and C. Vilela and R. B. Vogelaar and J. Walding and J. Walker and M. Ward and D. Wark and M. O. Wascko and A. Weber and R. Wendell and R. J. Wilkes and M. J. Wilking and J. R. Wilson and T. Xin and K. Yamamoto and C. Yanagisawa and T. Yano and S. Yen and N. Yershov and D. N. Yeum and M. Yokoyama and T. Yoshida and I. Yu and M. Yu and J. Zalipska and K. Zaremba and M. Ziembicki and M. Zito and S. Zsoldos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.04163},
year = {2018}
}
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