Letter of Intent: Jinping Neutrino Experiment
Abstract
Jinping Neutrino Experiment (Jinping) is proposed to significantly improve measurements on solar neutrinos and geoneutrinos in China Jinping Laboratory - a lab with a number of unparalleled features, thickest overburden, lowest reactor neutrino background, etc., which identify it as the world-best low-energy neutrino laboratory. The proposed experiment will have target mass of 4 kilotons of liquid scintillator or water-based liquid scintillator, with a fiducial mass of 2 kilotons for neutrino-electron scattering events and 3 kilotons for inverse-beta interaction events. A number of initial sensitivities studies have been carried out, including on the transition phase for the solar neutrinos oscillation from the vacuum to the matter effect, the discovery of solar neutrinos from the carbon-nitrogen-oxygen (CNO) cycle, the resolution of the high and low metallicity hypotheses, and the unambiguous separation on U and Th cascade decays from the dominant crustal anti-electron neutrinos in China.
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@article{arxiv.1602.01733,
title = {Letter of Intent: Jinping Neutrino Experiment},
author = {John F. Beacom and Shaomin Chen and Jianping Cheng and Sayed N. Doustimotlagh and Yuanning Gao and Shao-Feng Ge and Guanghua Gong and Hui Gong and Lei Guo and Ran Han and Xingtao Huang and Jianmin Li and Jin Li and Mohan Li and Xueqian Li and Guey-Lin Lin and Zuowei Liu and William McDonough and Jian Tang and Linyan Wan and Yuanqing Wang and Zhe Wang and Zongyi Wang and Hanyu Wei and Yufei Xi and Ye Xu and Zhenwei Yang and Chunfa Yao and Minfang Yeh and Qian Yue and Liming Zhang and Yang Zhang and Zhihong Zhao and Yangheng Zheng and Xiang Zhou and Xianglei Zhu and Kai Zuber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.01733},
year = {2017}
}
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Proposal for the Jinping Neutrino Experiment