Dissertation Enhancement in Japan: Neutrino Astrophysics with the Super-Kamiokande Detector

9504114威尔克斯本学位论文增强奖资助华盛顿大学物理系研究生安德鲁·斯塔奇拉在日本进行为期6个月的研究访问，他在R·J·威尔克斯教授的指导下工作。Stachyra将在日本逗留六个月，期间将在三个不同的研究地点分配他的时间，在此期间，他将得到东京宇宙线研究所(ICRR)超级神冈小组负责人Yoji Totsuka教授的赞助。Super-Kamiokande是一种水切伦科夫探测器，将安装在日本神冈Mozumi矿。超级神冈有望提供新的信息，这些信息将有助于研究中微子振荡、太阳模型、超新星模型以及对核子衰变部分寿命设定新的限制。Stachyra先生将在ICRR花大约一个月的时间学习日本数据采集设备的工作原理，在KEK粒子加速器花两个月的时间了解那里正在进行的用较小的切伦科夫探测器进行的校准实验，并为其做出贡献，在1996年4月开始数据采集之前，将在矿场花大约三个月的时间学习探测器的构造细节。斯塔奇拉将学习为高能物理实验建造电子设备的日本风格，并将能够将日本的系统与美国的系统进行比较。他将能够比较两种系统的优缺点，并了解其中一种系统比另一种更受欢迎。***

9504114 Wilkes This dissertation enhancement award supports a 6-month research visit in Japan for Andrew Stachyra, a graduate student in the Department of Physics at the University of Washington, who works under the direction of Professor R. J. Wilkes. Mr. Stachyra will divide his time among three different research sites over the course of his six month stay in Japan, during which he will be sponsored by the Professor Yoji Totsuka, the head of the Super-Kamiokande Group at the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) in Tokyo. Super-Kamiokande is a water Cherenkov detector to be located in the Kamioka Mozumi mine in Japan. Super Kamiokande is expected to provide new information that will be useful in the study of neutrino oscillations, in solar modeling, in supernova modeling, and in setting new limits on nucleon decay partial lifetimes. Mr. Stachyra will spend approximately one month at the ICRR learning how the Japanese data acquisition equipment works, two months at the KEK particle accelerator learning about and contributing to calibration experiments being conducted with a smaller Cherenkov detector there, and about three months will be spent at the mine site learning the details of detector construction before data taking begins in April of 1996. Mr. Stachyra will learn the Japanese style for constructing electronics for high energy physics experiments and will be able to compare the Japanese system with the U.S. system. He will be able to compare the advantages and drawbacks of both systems and learn when one is preferred over the other. ***