The Hyper-Kamiokande Experiment -- Snowmass LOI
Instrumentation and Detectors
2020-09-03 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
Hyper-Kamiokande is the next generation underground water Cherenkov detector that builds on the highly successful Super-Kamiokande experiment. The detector which has an 8.4~times larger effective volume than its predecessor will be located along the T2K neutrino beamline and utilize an upgraded J-PARC beam with 2.6~times beam power. Hyper-K's low energy threshold combined with the very large fiducial volume make the detector unique, that is expected to acquire an unprecedented exposure of 3.8~Mtonyear over a period of 20~years of operation. Hyper-Kamiokande combines an extremely diverse science program including nucleon decays, long-baseline neutrino oscillations, atmospheric neutrinos, and neutrinos from astrophysical origins. The scientific scope of this program is highly complementary to liquid-argon detectors for example in sensitivity to nucleon decay channels or supernova detection modes. Hyper-Kamiokande construction has started in early 2020 and the experiment is expected to start operations in 2027. The Hyper-Kamiokande collaboration is presently being formed amongst groups from 19 countries including the United States, whose community has a long history of making significant contributions to the neutrino physics program in Japan. US physicists have played leading roles in the Kamiokande, Super-Kamiokande, EGADS, K2K, and T2K programs.
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@article{arxiv.2009.00794,
title = {The Hyper-Kamiokande Experiment -- Snowmass LOI},
author = {Kamiokande Collaboration and K. Abe and P. Adrich and H. Aihara and R. Akutsu and I. Alekseev and A. Ali and F. Ameli and L. H. V. Anthony and A. Araya and Y. Asaoka and V. Aushev and I. Bandac and M. Barbi and G. Barr and M. Batkiewicz-Kwasniak and M. Bellato and V. Berardi and L. Bernard and E. Bernardini and L. Berns and S. Bhadra and J. Bian and A. Blanchet and A. Blondel and A. Boiano and S. Bolognesi and L. Bonavera and S. Borjabad and T. Boschi and D. Bose and S . B. Boyd and C. Bozza and A. Bravar and C. Bronner and A. Bubak and A. Buchowicz and M. Buizza Avanzini and F. S. Cafagna and N. F. Calabria and J. M. Calvo-Mozota and S. Cao and M. G. Catanesi and S. Chakraborty and J. H. Choi and S. Choubey and M. Cicerchia and J. Coleman and G. Collazuol and S. Cuen-Rochin and M. Danilov and E. De la Fuente and P. de Perio and G. De Rosa and T. Dealtry and C. J. Densham and A. Dergacheva and N. Deshmukh and M. M. Devi and F. Di Lodovico and P. Di Meo and I. Di Palma and T. 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journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.00794},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
6 pages, prepared as Snowmass2021 LOI