Super-Kamiokande in Poland

See also Official Collaboration Home Page at the Super-Kamiokande site in Japan

Studencie IV-go lub V-go roku:

Mozesz sie natychmiast wlaczyc w badania uznane przez Science za najdonioslejsze w fizyce ostatniego roku. Przy okazji mozesz poznac Japonie. Jezeli jestes zainteresowany robieniem magisterium lub pracy doktorskiej w Super-Kamiokande lub nowym eksperymencie K2K zglos sie do pokoju 10a w pawilonie na Hozej lub napisz na adres: danka@fuw.edu.pl.

Discovery of neutrino oscillations and mass

fig. from www.aip.org/physnews/graphics

With 500 days of data collected in the Super-Kamiokande detector a significant anisotropy was observed in the angular distribution of atmospheric neutrinos. Oscillations of muon neutrinos fit best the observations ( PRL 81, 1562 (1998).

Up-down asymmetry versus lepton momentum (blue lines are expected without oscillations, red with the best fit oscillation parameters). Click here for more plots and figures on atmospheric neutrinos.

Detection of Earth's magnetic field using neutrinos

(see AIP update.435 and PRL 82, 5194 (1999))

fig. from www.aip.org/physnews/graphics

More details can be found:

Main goals of the Super-Kamiokande experiment

  • Study of neutrino properties
    • Atmospheric Neutrinos
    • Solar Neutrinos
  • Search for proton decays
  • Search for Supernova neutrinos (already heading toward us!)

    Picture of the Sun center made with neutrinos

    Detector:

    The world largest detector, filled with 50 000 tons of ultra-pure water is located in the tunnel of Kamioka mine in Japan.

    About 100 physicists from Japan, USA and Poland participate in the experiment.
    From Poland: Urszula Golebiewska is currently in Japan, where she participates in the construction of the new K2K experiment, which will search for oscillations of neutrinos produced in KEK accelearator and sent to Super-Kamiokande

    For more Super-K pictures press here

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