Design, Status and Physics Potential of JUNO
Abstract
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a 20 kton multi-purpose liquid scintillator detector currently being built in a dedicated underground laboratory in Jiangmen (PR China). Data-taking is expected to start in 2023. JUNO's main physics goal is the determination of the neutrino mass ordering using electron anti-neutrinos from two nuclear power plants at a baseline of about 53 km. JUNO aims for an unprecedented energy resolution of 3 at 1 MeV for the central detector, which will allow determining the mass ordering with 3 significance within six years of operation. Furthermore, measurements in neutrino physics and astrophysics, such as estimating the solar oscillation parameters and the atmospheric mass splitting with an accuracy of 0.5 or better, will be performed. In these proceedings, JUNO's design, the status of its construction, and its physics potential, will be presented alongside a short excursion into its rich RD program.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2203.14087,
title = {Design, Status and Physics Potential of JUNO},
author = {Hans Th. J. Steiger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.14087},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1912.02038