Elusives visit to Super-Kamiokande in El País newspaper

March 28, 2019 by Bruno Martin

Former ESR Bruno Martin reports in El País newspaper on the upgrades to the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector in Japan, which he visited during his last secondment as an Elusives ESR (to Kavli IPMU / University of Tokyo).

The upgrade to Super-Kamiokande will allow 'spiking' the tank's water with the rare earth metal gadolinium in order to detect the diffuse neutrino background. Read the full article (in Spanish) at El País: https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/03/09/ciencia/1552119596_613672.html

Photo credit: Kamioka Observatory