Astroparticle Physics in Hyper-Kamiokande

Understand

Hyper-Kamiokande is a proposed next-generation general purpose neutrino detection experiment.

• It comprises an underground water Cherenkov detector that will be more than 8 times as large as the highly successful Super-Kamiokande and use significantly improved photodetectors with the same 40 % photocoverage.
• The resulting sensitivity improvements will particularly benefit astroparticle physics at low energies.
• This contribution to the EPS-HEP 2017 proceedings gives an overview over Hyper-Kamiokande and presents its projected physics reach in the areas of supernova neutrinos, solar neutrinos and indirect dark matter searches, based on the current design report.