The Super-Kamiokande detector

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作者
Fukuda, S
Fukuda, Y
Hayakawa, T
Ichihara, E
Ishitsuka, M
Itow, Y
Kajita, T
Kameda, J
Kaneyuki, K
Kasuga, S
Kobayashi, K
Kobayashi, Y
Koshio, Y
Miura, M
Moriyama, S
Nakahata, M
Nakayama, S
Namba, T
Obayashi, Y
Okada, A
Oketa, M
Okumura, K
Oyabu, T
Sakurai, N
Shiozawa, M
Suzuki, Y
Takeuchi, Y
Toshito, T
Totsuka, Y
Yamada, S
Desai, S
Earl, M
Hong, JT
Kearns, E
Masuzawa, M
Messier, MD
Stone, JL
Sulak, LR
Walter, CW
Wang, W
Scholberg, K
Barszczak, T
Casper, D
Liu, DW
Gajewski, W
Halverson, PG
Hsu, J
Kropp, WR
Mine, S
Price, LR
机构
[1] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys & Astron, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[2] Univ Tokyo, Inst Cosm Ray Res, Kashiwa, Chiba 2778582, Japan
[3] Boston Univ, Dept Phys, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[4] MIT, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[5] Calif State Univ Dominguez Hills, Dept Phys, Carson, CA 90747 USA
[6] George Mason Univ, Dept Phys, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA
[7] Gifu Univ, Dept Phys, Gifu 5011193, Japan
[8] Univ Hawaii, Dept Phys & Astron, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[9] Tokyo Inst Technol, Dept Phys, Meguro Ku, Tokyo 1528551, Japan
[10] High Energy Accelerator Res Org, KEK, Inst Particle & Nucl Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050801, Japan
[11] Kobe Univ, Dept Phys, Kobe, Hyogo 6578501, Japan
[12] Kyoto Univ, Dept Phys, Sakyo Ku, Kyoto 6068502, Japan
[13] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Div Phys, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[14] Louisiana State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[15] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[16] Univ Minnesota, Dept Phys, Duluth, MN 55812 USA
[17] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Phys & Astron, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[18] Niigata Univ, Dept Phys, Niigata 9502181, Japan
[19] Osaka Univ, Dept Phys, Toyonaka, Osaka 5600043, Japan
[20] Seoul Natl Univ, Dept Phys, Seoul 151742, South Korea
[21] Shizuoka Seiko Coll, Yaizu, Shizuoka 4258611, Japan
[22] Tohoku Univ, Dept Phys, Sendai, Miyagi 9808578, Japan
[23] Univ Tokyo, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[24] Tokai Univ, Dept Phys, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa 2591292, Japan
[25] Univ Warsaw, Inst Expt Phys, PL-00681 Warsaw, Poland
[26] Univ Washington, Dept Phys, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[27] High Energy Accelerator Res Org, KEK, Accelerator Lab, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050801, Japan
基金
新加坡国家研究基金会; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
water Cherenkov detector; super-kamiokande; neutrinos; K2K; cosmic rays;
D O I
10.1016/S0168-9002(03)00425-X
中图分类号
TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
Super-Kamiokande is the world's largest water Cherenkov detector, with net mass 50,000 tons. During the period April, 1996 to July, 2001, Super-Kamiokande I collected 1678 live-days of data, observing neutrinos from the Sun, Earth's atmosphere, and the K2K long-baseline neutrino beam with high efficiency. These data provided crucial information for our current understanding of neutrino oscillations, as well as setting stringent limits on nucleon decay. In this paper, we describe the detector in detail, including its site, configuration, data acquisition equipment, online and offline software, and calibration systems which were used during Super-Kamiokande I. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:418 / 462
页数:45
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