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Status and Prospects of the JUNO Experiment
by Matthias Raphael Stock
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| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Matthias Raphael Stock |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07321v1 (pdf) |
| Date submitted: | 2024-05-14 10:59 |
| Submitted by: | Stock, Matthias Raphael |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Proceedings |
| Proceedings issue: | 17th International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics (TAU2023) |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approaches: | Experimental, Observational |
Abstract
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multi-purpose neutrino experiment currently under construction in China. It is located 52.5km away from two nuclear power plants in a newly constructed 700-m-deep underground laboratory. JUNO will be the largest liquid scintillator (LS) detector in the world comprising 20 kt of ultrapure LS filled in an acrylic sphere. Its main goal is to determine the neutrino mass ordering by measuring the energy spectrum of reactor neutrinos with highest accuracy. In addition, JUNO will cover precision measurements of oscillation parameters and several aspects in the field of astroparticle physics. Data taking will start in late 2024.
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Report #1 by Swagato Banerjee (Referee 1) on 2024-11-24 (Invited Report)
Report
Status of JUNO, a multipurpose neutrino experiment currently under construction in China, and its physics prospects are presented. The experiment can determine the neutrino mass ordering and cover precision measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters. Expected reactor neutrino energy spectra are illustrated after six years of data taking, expected to start in late 2024, which will lead to determination of the neutrino mass ordering with a 3σ significance.
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