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

9504114 Wilkes该论文强化奖支持华盛顿大学物理系研究生Andrew Stachyra在日本进行为期6个月的研究访问，他在R.威尔克斯。 Stachyra先生将在日本逗留六个月期间在三个不同的研究地点分配时间，在此期间，他将得到东京宇宙射线研究所（ICRR）超级神冈组组长Yoji Totsuka教授的赞助。 Super-Kamiokande是一种水切伦科夫探测器，将位于日本的Kamioka Mozumi矿。 超级神冈预计将提供新的信息，这将是有用的中微子振荡的研究，在太阳建模，在超新星建模，并在设定新的限制核子衰变部分寿命。Stachyra先生将在ICRR花大约一个月的时间学习日本数据获取设备的工作原理，在KEK粒子加速器花两个月的时间学习使用较小的切伦科夫探测器进行的校准实验并为之作出贡献，在1996年4月开始数据获取之前，将在矿场花大约三个月的时间学习探测器的建造细节。 Stachyra先生将学习日本为高能物理实验构建电子设备的方式，并将能够将日本系统与美国系统进行比较。 他将能够比较两种系统的优点和缺点，并了解何时一种系统优于另一种系统。 ***

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. ***