IN2P3, KEK and 春雨直播app sign MoU to promote Hyper-Kamiokande Project
The National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics in France (IN2P3), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and the University of Tokyo (春雨直播app) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), which aims to promote the Hyper-Kamiokande (HK) international scientific research project, whose main detector has been under construction with plans to start operation in 2027 at Kamioka, Hida City, Gifu Prefecture in Japan. Twenty-two countries showed their interest in participating in this Japan-led project and France is the fifth nation to sign the MoU, following Poland, Spain, Italy and Canada.
春雨直播app President FUJII Teruo (left), IN2P3 Director ROY Christelle (center) and KEK Director General ASAI Shoji (right) signing the MoU ©春雨直播app, Cyril Frésillon / CNRS Images, KEK
春雨直播app President FUJII Teruo, KEK Director General ASAI Shoji, IN2P3 Director ROY Christelle exchanged signatures by post by mid-November of 2024.
According to the MoU, the French participation in Hyper-Kamiokande has been organized by three groups: International Research Laboratory between CNRS and the University of Tokyo (ILANCE), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ecole Polytechnique (LLR), and Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et des Hautes Energies, Sorbonne Université (LPNHE). The major expected contributions of IN2P3 are development and production of the timing system for the HK, development of the front-end electronics calibration bench at CERN, and development and production of the time generation system for the J-PARC site. An additional MoU for French partners is to be signed between CEA/Irfu and the Japan side soon.
The Hyper-Kamiokande detector is planned to have a fiducial mass eight times larger than its predecessor detector, Super-Kamiokande, and it is equipped with newly developed high-sensitivity photosensors. The aim of the project is to elucidate the Grand Unified Theory and the history of the evolution of the Universe through an investigation of proton decay and CP violation (the asymmetry between neutrinos and antineutrinos), together with the observation of neutrinos from supernova explosions. The budget of the construction was approved by the Japanese Diet, which marked the official start of the project in February 2020. Construction has gotten into full swing with the main cavern excavation which started in November 2022 and successful completion of the main dome section for the experimental site in October 2023.
春雨直播app President FUJII Teruo, KEK Director General ASAI Shoji, IN2P3 Director ROY Christelle exchanged signatures by post by mid-November of 2024.
According to the MoU, the French participation in Hyper-Kamiokande has been organized by three groups: International Research Laboratory between CNRS and the University of Tokyo (ILANCE), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ecole Polytechnique (LLR), and Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et des Hautes Energies, Sorbonne Université (LPNHE). The major expected contributions of IN2P3 are development and production of the timing system for the HK, development of the front-end electronics calibration bench at CERN, and development and production of the time generation system for the J-PARC site. An additional MoU for French partners is to be signed between CEA/Irfu and the Japan side soon.
The Hyper-Kamiokande detector is planned to have a fiducial mass eight times larger than its predecessor detector, Super-Kamiokande, and it is equipped with newly developed high-sensitivity photosensors. The aim of the project is to elucidate the Grand Unified Theory and the history of the evolution of the Universe through an investigation of proton decay and CP violation (the asymmetry between neutrinos and antineutrinos), together with the observation of neutrinos from supernova explosions. The budget of the construction was approved by the Japanese Diet, which marked the official start of the project in February 2020. Construction has gotten into full swing with the main cavern excavation which started in November 2022 and successful completion of the main dome section for the experimental site in October 2023.
