#super-kamiokande

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Super-Kamiokande es un observatorio, en Japón, para detectar neutrinos de alta energía, tanto de origen solar como atmosférico. Está formado por un tanque de acero inoxidable con capacidad para 50 mil toneladas de agua ultrapura. Su superficie interior está decorada con unos 13 mil tubos fotomultiplicadores que detectan la radiación de Cherenkov.

[talesofdrunkennessandcruelty]

This Beautiful Golden Chamber Contains Water So Pure It Can Dissolve Metal and Detect Dying Stars

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[macmanx]

How is it possible that this photo was taken at night?!

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[persp3ctivist]

The Super-Kamiokande detector in Japan, an underground tank that holds 50 million liters of water, captures neutrinos that emanate from a particle accelerator nearly 300 kilometers away. When a neutrino hits the detector, it can produce charged particles, whose high speed through the water emits a flash of light, triggering phototubes mounted in the walls of the Super-K tank. The experiment investigates muon neutrinos transforming into electron neutrinos.

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miraikan  12:09:17

This device is the Super-Kamiokande. For the first time, Super-K was measured the mass of the neutrino.（初めてニュートリノの質量を計測したスーパーカミオカンデ）