What does SUPER-K stand for?

Background on the System Overhaul Kamioka Observatory uses Super-Kamiokande - the world's largest water Cherenkov detector for cosmic particles, installed underground in the Kamioka region of Hida city, located in Gifu prefecture of central Japan - to capture particles known as neutrinos, a type of cosmic rays that are perpetually falling from outer space to earth.

A later, larger detector, Super-Kamiokande, provided evidence that neutrinos don't disappear but instead change into a type indiscernible in earlier experiments (SN: 1/30/99, p, 76).

The Super-Kamiokande Experiment research team, a group of 120 scientists, presented its findings today at a physics conference in the city of Takayama.

Researchers at the Super-Kamiokande detector in Japan, west of Tokyo, offered striking evidence 2 years ago that neutrino types may morph, or "oscillate," into each other--a trick possible only if the particles weigh something (SN: 6/13/98, p.

Researchers from the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector in Kamioka, Japan, unveiled two years of data that carried a striking message.

Researchers searched for evidence of oscillations using the Super-Kamiokande detector, a steel cylinder 10 stories tall containing 12.

Japan's new Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector has been monitoring the sun's output since April 1996 (SN: 9/7/96, p.