Super-Kamiokande

The Super-Kamiokande detector is is the largest and most sensitive water Cherenkov light detector ever built. It is 39 meters in diameter and 41 meters in height. The detector is located 1000 meters underground in the Kamioka silver mine in Kamioka-cho Gifu, Japan. It will provide unprecedented sensitivity to solar neutrinos and nucleon decay.

The Super-Kamiokande project is collaboration between Japan and the United States:

• Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo
• Gifu University
• National Laboratory for High Energy Physics, KEK
• Kobe University
• Miyagi Education University
• Niigata University
• Osaka University
• Tokai University
• Tohoku University
• Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Boston University
• Brookhaven National Laboratory
• University of California, Irvine
• California State University, Dominguez Hills
• Cleveland State University
• George Mason University
• University of Hawaii
• Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Louisiana State University
• University of Maryland
• State University of New York, Stony Brook
• University of Warsaw
• University of Washington