Speaker
Andrew Santos
(Kavli IPMU - UTokyo)
Description
The Super-Kamiokande (SK) experiment is a world-leading, 50-kton water Cherenkov detector in Japan. Gadolinium sulfate has been loaded into the tank at 0.01% and 0.03% by mass in 2020 and 2022, respectively, to start the SK-Gd era and significantly improve the identification of neutron captures. Here, we discuss the status of SK-Gd, its latest results, and some prospects for the future. Topics covered include new analyses of solar neutrinos, the observation of reactor anti-neutrinos, updates on oscillation parameters from atmospheric neutrinos, supernova monitoring, and the hunt for the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background.
Author
Andrew Santos
(Kavli IPMU - UTokyo)