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Large liquid scintillator detectors, such as JUNO, present a new opportunity to study neutral current events from the low-energy end of the atmospheric neutrinos, and possible new physics signals due to light dark matter. We carefully study…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-06 Bhavesh Chauhan , Basudeb Dasgupta , Amol Dighe

While the potential of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) to measure solar neutrinos is known, realizing this potential requires new techniques to reduce detector backgrounds. One of the most serious backgrounds is due to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-16 Obada Nairat , John F. Beacom , Shirley Weishi Li

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory will build the world's largest liquid scintillator detector to study neutrinos from various sources. The 20 kt liquid scintillator will be stored in a $\sim$600 t acrylic sphere with 35.4 m…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-19 Chuanya Cao , Nan Li , Xiaoyu Yang , Jie Zhao , Yuanxia Li , Zhiyan Cai , Liangjian Wen , Xiaolan Luo , Yuekun Heng , Yayun Ding

The 20kt Liquid Scintillator (LS) JUNO detector is being constructed by the International Collaboration in China, with the primary goal of addressing the question of neutrino mass ordering (hierarchy). The main challenge for JUNO is to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-21 N. Anfimov

The Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (TAO or JUNO-TAO) is a satellite experiment of Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) and located near the Taishan nuclear power plant (NPP). TAO will measure the energy spectrum of reactor…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-06 Minghua Liao , Kaixuan Huang , Yumei Zhang , Jiayang Xu , Guofu Cao , Zhengyun You

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), under construction in South China, primarily aims to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy and to precise measure the neutrino oscillation parameters. The data-taking is expected to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-09-26 Tao Lin

The JSNS2-II (the second phase of JSNS2, J-PARC Sterile Neutrino Search at J-PARC Spallation Neutron Source) is an experiment aimed at searching for sterile neutrinos. This experiment has entered its second phase, employing two liquid…

The optical properties of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) heavy water Cherenkov neutrino detector are measured in situ using a light diffusing sphere ("laserball"). This diffuser is connected to a pulsed nitrogen/dye laser via…

Liquid scintillator (LS) will be adopted as the detector material in JUNO (Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory). The energy resolution requirement of JUNO is 3%, which has never previously been reached. To achieve this energy…

Mini-EUSO (Extreme Universe Space Observatory) is a small-scale prototype cosmic-ray detector that will measure Earth`s UV emission and other atmospheric phenomena from space. It will be placed in the International Space Station (ISS)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Viktoria Kungel , Mario E. Bertaina , Francesca Bisconti , Marco Casolino , Johannes Eser , Lawrence Wiencke , JEM-EUSO Collaboration

New probes of neutrino mixing are needed to advance precision studies. One promising direction is via the detection of low-energy atmospheric neutrinos (below a few hundred MeV), to which a variety of near-term experiments will have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-04 Anna M. Suliga , John F. Beacom

We explore how well reactor antineutrino experiments can constrain or measure the loss of quantum coherence in neutrino oscillations. We assume that decoherence effects are encoded in the size of the neutrino wave-packet, $\sigma$. We find…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-24 André de Gouvêa , Valentina De Romeri , Christoph A. Ternes

The Super-light Sterile Neutrino Scenario (SSNS) has been proposed in the literature to explain the suppression of the upturn in the low energy solar data. In this scenario, the mass splitting between the new mass eigenstate, $\nu_0$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Pouya Bakhti , Yasaman Farzan

The JUNO experiment requires an excellent energy resolution of 3\% at 1 MeV. To achieve this objective, a total of 20,012 20-inch photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) will be deployed for JUNO, comprising 15,012 multi-channel plate (MCP) PMTs and…

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multi-purpose neutrino experiment. One of the main goals is to determine the neutrino mass ordering by precisely measuring the energy spectrum of reactor antineutrinos. For reactor…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-28 Cheng-Feng Yang , Yong-Bo Huang , Ji-Lei Xu , Di-Ru Wu , Hao-Qi Lu , Yong-Peng Zhang , Wu-Ming Luo , Miao He , Guo-Ming Chen , Si-Yuan Zhang

Borexino was the first experiment to detect solar neutrinos in real-time in the sub-MeV region. In order to achieve high precision in the determination of neutrino rates, the detector design includes an internal and an external calibration…

The flux of geoneutrinos at any point on the Earth is a function of the abundance and distribution of radioactive elements within our planet. This flux has been successfully detected by the 1-kt KamLAND and 0.3-kt Borexino detectors with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-02-19 Ran Han , Yu-Feng Li , Liang Zhan , William F. McDonough , Jun Cao , Livia Ludhova

We present a new technique for sub-GeV dark matter (DM) searches and a new use of neutrino observatories. DM-electron scattering in an observatory can excite or ionize target molecules, which then produce light that can be detected by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 Rebecca K. Leane , John F. Beacom

We investigate the sensitivities of the liquid scintillator counter (LSC) at Yemilab and JUNO to solar neutrino oscillation parameters, focusing on $\theta_{12}$ and $\Delta m^2_{21}$. We compare the potential of JUNO with LSC at Yemilab…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-22 Pouya Bakhti , Meshkat Rajaee , Seon-Hee Seo , Seodong Shin