Review Article

Future Long-Baseline Neutrino Facilities and Detectors

Table 6

Detector parameters of the baseline design.

Detector type Ring-imaging water Cherenkov detector

Address Tochibora mine
Kamioka town, Gifu, Japan
Lat. N
Long. E
Candidate site Alt. 508 m
Overburden 648 m rock (1,750 m water equivalent)
Cosmic ray muon flux 1.0~2.3 10−6 sec−1 cm−2
Off-axis angle for the J-PARC (same as Super-Kamiokande)
Distance from the J-PARC 295 km (same as Super-Kamiokande)

Total volume 0.99 megaton
Detector geometry Inner volume (fiducial volume) 0.74 (0.56) megaton
Outer volume 0.2 megaton

Inner detector 99,000 20 inch PMTs
Photomultiplier tubes 20% photocoverage
Outer detector 25,000 8 inch PMTs

Water quality Light attenuation length >100 m at 400 nm
Rn concentration<1 mBq/m3