T2K
Super-Kamiokande, 50,000 tons of ultrapure water observed by about 13,000 photomultiplier tubes, is the largest underground neutrino detector in the world. Located under the Ikeno mount (Ikenoyama) in the Kamioka mines in Japan, Super-Kamiokande observes neutrinos from the Sun, the earth atmosphere and astrophysics sources, searching as well for the rare proton decay. An intense neutrino beam is produced by an accelerator complex in Tokai (JPARC), 295 Km away, and it is studied simultaneously in a near detector close to the source in Tokai and in Super-Kamiokande in un experiment called T2K (Tokai to Kamioka).
The last two decades have revolutioned our understanding of neutrino with the discovery of neutrino oscillation and that neutrino has non-zero mass. Still much has to be understood about neutrino nature and properties. Do neutrino violate matter-antimatter CP symmetry? Is this the reason why the Universe is made out of matter instead of antimatter? Which is the hierarchy of neutrino masses? Why neutrino mixing is so different with respect to quark mixing ? Are there other neutrino states? Which astrophysics objects are sources of neutrinos? Which is the neutrino role in core-collapse supernovae ? Is it possible to observe neutrino from Dark Matter annihilation?
To answer these fundamental questions, Super-Kamiokande and T2K are taking and analysing data while a new international collaboration is working to the design and construction of a new detector ten times larger, Hyper-Kamiokande, which will be playing a leading role in the next generation of neutrino experiments.
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For information regarding thesis opportunities, please contact: Lucio Ludovici.
Local Coordinator
Lucio Ludovici| Name | Surname | Role | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fabrizio | Ameli | Dipendente | Ricercatore |
| Lucio | Ludovici | Dipendente | Ricercatore |
| Marco | Rescigno | Dipendente | Ricercatore |
| Pier | Loverre | Associato | ?? |