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Description
Hyper-Kamiokande is the next-generation large-scale water Cherenkov neutrino experiment, currently under construction in Japan. Its ambitious physics programme, including precision measurements of neutrino oscillations, searches for nucleon decay, and observations of neutrinos from astrophysical sources, places demanding requirements on detector performance and instrumentation.
This presentation will focus on the detector technologies that enable the broad physics programme of Hyper-Kamiokande. Its different physics goals impose requirements on photon detection efficiency, timing and spatial resolution, event reconstruction, energy resolution, background rejection, and detector mass. We will explore how these requirements are addressed through the design and technologies employed in Hyper-Kamiokande, with particular emphasis on the photosensors and other key detector systems. The principles and performance of these technologies will be discussed in relation to the physics they enable, highlighting the design considerations and trade-offs involved in building a detector capable of addressing such a broad range of physics.