Prof. Walter Represents the U.S. at Founding of Hyper-Kamiokande Collaboration

Prof. Walter Represents the U.S. at Founding of Hyper-Kamiokande Collaboration

In February, an international group of physicists came together to form a proto-collaboration to build the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment. A follow-up to the currently operating Super-Kamiokande experiment, Hyper-Kamiokande would enclose almost a megaton of water and be more than twenty times larger than its predecessor. Hyper-Kamiokande is designed to study neutrino oscillations, astrophysical sources of neutrinos such as supernova and the stability of matter. At the ceremony, which was attended by both scientists and the press, the University of Tokyo and the Japanese national accelerator laboratory KEK signed a memorandum of understanding to increase cooperation towards building the giant experiment. Prof. Chris Walter (pictured on the right with Prof. Ed Kearns of Boston University) is one of two U.S. representatives of the international scientists forming the collaboration.

More information about the meeting along with a comment from Prof. Walter can be found in the Science Magazine article "Japanese neutrino physicists think really big."