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 |
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