SK-Gd: New era in Super-Kamiokande detector – Shintaro Miki (University of Tokyo)

Thursday 3 Aug 2023, 12:30 → 13:30 America/Los_Angeles

48/2-224 - Madrone (SLAC)

Super-Kamiokande (SK), the 50-kton water-Cherenkov neutrino detector in Japan, started its completely new phase called SK-Gd in 2020 by dissolving gadolinium sulfate in the water. Gadolinium highly improves neutron detection efficiency in SK, and will benefit many physics analyses in SK including supernova neutrino direction pointing, search for diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB), neutrino oscillation measurement with atmospheric and accelerator neutrinos, and searches for proton decay. In this talk, I will present current status of SK-Gd and how we detect neutrons with Gadolinium. I also discuss how physics capabilities in SK are improved with help of neutron detection.

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miki_SLACseminar_230803_v2.pdf

video1577589051.mp4