Development of Ultra-pure Gadolinium Sulfate for the Super-Kamiokande Gadolinium Project

K. Hosokawa, M. Ikeda, T. Okada +20

This paper reports the development and detailed properties of about 13 tons of gadolinium sulfate octahydrate, $\mathrm{G}{\mathrm{d}}_2(\mathrm{S}{\mathrm{O}}_4{)}_3\cdot 8{\mathrm{H}}_2\mathrm{O}$, which has been dissolved into…