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Outreach for
 Hyper-Kamiokande

2019-09-11

Jost Migenda (they/them) for the Hyper-Kamiokande Proto-Collaboration

• This talk is not exhaustive!
• Personal, subjective selection
• Thanks to the whole Hyper-K proto-collaboration

(~340 people from around the world)

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Disclaimer

Background photo taken at collaboration meeting (Kashiwa, September 2019)

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Hyper-Kamiokande

Super-Kamiokande

1996–today (and beyond)

Kajita, 2015

Kamiokande

1983–1996

with 50cm PMT

Koshiba, 2002

Hyper-Kamiokande

~2027–???

???, 20??



20× 8×

71m height 68m diameter 188 kton FV

New!

construction to start in 2020

• Detector design may not be finalized yet
• Funding and schedule uncertain at early stages
• For Hyper-K, funding almost certain (in MEXT budget request for FY2020)
• Don’t have photos of detector, etc.

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The Problems

Letter of Intent (2011)

60 m 
 ×
 74 m 71 m
 ×
 68 m

Design Report (2016) New (2019)

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Avoiding the Problems

Remember: Your planned experiment does not exist in a vacuum.

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Embed in Larger Context

J-PARC-chan: lives in Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki, Japan. Super-Kamiokande-chan: lives in Kamioka-cho, Hida-city, Gifu, Japan.

T2K!

Hi, Super- Kamiokande- chan! Watch out, muon neutrinos! Something different...? No! It’s Neutrino Oscillation!

It's a miracle!

Wow !

Wow ! ……

J-PARC-chan Super- Kamiokande- chan

AKIMOTO Yuki, https://higgstan.com

• Have there been similar

experiments before?
 (Yes.)

• Use images from those for

illustration if appropriate.

• Don’t confuse your

audience!

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Predecessors

Image credit: Kamioka Observatory, ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research), The University of Tokyo

Inside Super-Kamiokande

Diego Delso (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Puente_de_la_Torre,_Londres,_Inglaterra,_2014-08-11,_DD_092.JPG), CC BY-SA 4.0

Hyper-K

663highland (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:080506_Toyama_International_Conference_Center_Toyama_Japan01s3.jpg), CC BY 2.5

Hyper-K

• 7 min interactive VR experience
• originally developed for Royal Society exhibition by Ben Richards;

interest from other universities

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Super-K VR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPvUvyGPcKI

• week-long event with many different science exhibits

& over 14k visitors


https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2018/summer-science-exhibition/proposals/

• Our exhibit: https://ghostsintheuniverse.org
• (long) queues for the VR exhibit
• 3 devices running in parallel
• Set up 2nd monitor to show what the person with

VR headset is seeing

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Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition

Photo: Teppei Katori

Photo: Teppei Katori Photo: Francesca Di Lodovico

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Reaping the Benefits

What you gain
 from talking about
 a far-future experiment

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Reaping the Benefits

Science is a process.

Talk less about “stuff we already know”
 and more about the process of discovery!

• Anchors it in reality
• Makes scale of experiment more concrete
• How to get enough water to fill the detector?
• Need to build roads & power lines
• Can make jokes about “boring surveys” and Balrogs

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Talk About Construction

• Physics still loses the contributions of many women and

ethnic minorities in part because of stereotypes

• Showing today’s (slightly) more diverse physicists in

addition to past heroes can help fight that


➔ But: not enough to show diverse physicists, also need a more welcoming culture

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Physics is for Everyone

• Today’s school kids will be PhD students when Hyper-K starts
• Need to design outreach facilities on top of the detector soon

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Planning Ahead

Could think about e.g.

• video/VR room
• view of control room
• … and more!

Tunnel leading towards Super-K: http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/panorama/SKXMASS-EN/

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Instead of Conclusions …

What are your experiences doing outreach for far-future experiments?