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Description
The upcoming Hyper-Kamiokande experiment is the third generation of water Cherenkov detector situated in Kamioka, Japan, following in the footsteps of the highly successful Kamiokande and Super-Kamiokande experiments. Hyper-Kamiokande will serve as the far detector for a long-baseline neutrino experiment utilising the neutrino beam from J-PARC, with the primary purpose being the measurement of the CP violation phase, $\delta_{CP}$. With a fiducial volume approximately eight times larger than Super-K, it is also perfectly placed to observe neutrinos from astrophysical sources, as well as searching for proton decay. To make these measurements a reduction in systematic errors in comparison to current levels is required, towards which a range of calibration sources, a new detector, IWCD, and new techniques are currently being developed. This talk will describe the approaches being developed for detector calibration and the determination of systematic uncertainties and their impact on the sensitivity of Hyper-Kamiokande.
