It is one of the most important conferences worldwide in new generation technologies for neutrino detection and nucleon decay.
The 20th International Workshop on Next Generation Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detectors “NNN19” will be held for the first time in Latin America, in Medellin, Colombia, after 19 editions held successfully in different parts of the world.
NNN19 will include the 2015 Nobel Laureate in Physics Takaaki Kajita from University of Tokyo, Japan, who was awarded the prize for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass. On the other hand, the organizing committee has invited the KM3Net team to take part in a plenary talk during the event, where they will present its status and perspectives. The Conference and Publications Committee of KM3Net has proposed and approved for Harold Yepes Ramírez, Ph.D., principal investigator for KM3Net in Latin America and Professor of the School of Physical Sciences and Nanotechnology of Yacha Tech University, to be their representative at NNN19.
In February 2019, Yachay Tech University, under Professor Yepes’s leadership, successfully managed to access KN3Net, thus becoming the only institution in Latin America to be part of this type of infrastructure in multidisciplinary research (space, sea and earth sciences). Professor Yepes’ team at Yachay Tech has recently begun to collaborate in KM3Net in photomultiplier technology, optical background characterization, positioning subsystems, event selection for multi-message astrophysics and the proposal for a preliminary design of a prototype optical calibration system for the neutrino detector.
KM3NeT is an international collaboration that includes more than 180 scientists and engineers distributed amongst 55 institutes, 46 cities, 17 countries and 4 continents. KM3Net is building the future neutrinos observatory of kilometer-cubic scale in two locations in the Mediterranean Sea; the first detection units have already been installed, are operational and accumulating high-value data for their scientific programs.
