Centre for Particle Physics at Royal Holloway Secures STFC Funding for Hyper-Kamiokande Experiment

The Department is pleased to extend its congratulations to Professor Jocelyn Monroe and Dr Tracey Berry who led a successful bid to secure funding from the STFC for a project entitled: “Hyper-Kamiokande (UK Strategy for Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments)”  [£119,714].

This funding will enable the Centre for Particle Physics at Royal Holloway to research and develop a high pressure gas detector for use in the upcoming Hyper-Kamiokande experiment near Hida, Japan. This new project will continue investigations into the physics of neutrinos, weakly interacting sub-atomic particles. Its predecessor, the Kamiokande detector conducted ground-breaking observations of neutrinos emanating from the sun, the atmosphere, and a supernova, in the mid-1980s.