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We study the ratio of neutrino-proton elastic scattering to inverse beta decay event counts, measurable in a scintillation detector like JUNO, as a key observable for identifying the explosion mechanism of a galactic core-collapse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Nitsan Bar , Kfir Blum , Guido D'Amico

Cosmic Ray and neutrino oscillation physics can be studied by using atmospheric neutrinos. JUNO (Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory) is a large liquid scintillator detector with low energy detection threshold and excellent energy…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-01-31 Giulio Settanta , Stefano Maria Mari , Cristina Martellini , Paolo Montini

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is an experimental project designed to determine the neutrino mass ordering and probe the fundamental properties of the neutrino oscillations. The JUNO central detector is a spherical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-22 X. Fang , Y. Zhang , G. H. Gong , G. F. Cao , T. Lin , C. W. Yang , W. D. Li

We propose a new type segmented antineutrino detector made of plastic scintillators for the nuclear safeguard application. A small prototype was built and tested to measure background events. A satisfactory unmanned field operation of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-09-24 Yasuhiro Kuroda , Shugo Oguri , Yo Kato , Ryoko Nakata , Yoshizumi Inoue , Chikara Ito , Makoto Minowa

Monte Carlo simulations are a crucial tool for the analysis and prediction of various background components in liquid xenon (LXe) detectors. With improving shielding in new experiments, the simulation of external backgrounds, such as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-31 S. Bruenner , A. P. Colijn , M. P. Decowski , O. V. Kesber

Monte Carlo simulation is an essential component of experimental particle physics in all the phases of its life-cycle: the investigation of the physics reach of detector concepts, the design of facilities and detectors, the development and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-08-02 Maria Grazia Pia , Georg Weidenspointner

The medium baseline reactor antineutrino experiment, Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), which is being planed to be built at Jiangmen in South China, can determine the neutrino mass hierarchy and improve the precision of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-18 Yu-Feng Li

The RENO experiment has been in operation since August 2011 to measure reactor antineutrino disappearance using identical near and far detectors. For accurate measurements of neutrino mixing parameters and efficient data taking, it is…

This study developed a novel method for detecting hypernuclear events recorded in nuclear emulsion sheets using machine learning techniques. The artificial neural network-based object detection model was trained on surrogate images created…

It remains a possibility that neutrinos are pseudo-Dirac states, such that a generation is composed of two maximally mixed Majorana neutrinos separated by a very small mass difference. We explore the physics potential of the JUNO experiment…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-13 Jack Franklin , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez , Jessica Turner

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multi-purpose, large size, liquid scintillator experiment under construction in China. JUNO will perform leading measurements detecting neutrinos from different sources (reactor,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-03 Alberto Coppi , Beatrice Jelmini , Marco Bellato , Antonio Bergnoli , Matteo Bolognesi , Riccardo Brugnera , Vanessa Cerrone , Chao Chen , Barbara Clerbaux , Daniele Corti , Flavio dal Corso , Jianmeng Dong , Wei Dou , Lei Fan , Alberto Garfagnini , Arsenii Gavrikov , Guanghua Gong , Marco Grassi , Rosa Maria Guizzetti , Shuang Hang , Cong He , Jun Hu , Roberto Isocrate , Xiaolu Ji , Xiaoshan Jiang , Fei Li , Zehong Liang , Ivano Lippi , Hongbang Liu , Hongbin Liu , Shenghui Liu , Xuewei Liu , Daibin Luo , Ronghua Luo , Filippo Marini , Daniele Mazzaro , Luciano Modenese , Marta Colomer Molla , Zhe Ning , Yu Peng , Pierre-Alexandre Petitjean , Alberto Pitacco , Mengyao Qi , Loris Ramina , Mirco Rampazzo , Massimo Rebeschini , Mariia Redchuk , Andrea Serafini , Yunhua Sun , Andrea Triossi , Riccardo Triozzi , Fabio Veronese , Katharina von Sturm , Peiliang Wang , Peng Wang , Yangfu Wang , Yusheng Wang , Yuyi Wang , Zheng Wang , Ping Wei , Jun Weng , Shishen Xian , Xiaochuan Xie , Benda Xu , Chuang Xu , Donglian Xu , Hai Xu , Xiongbo Yan , Ziyue Yan , Fengfan Yang , Yan Yang , Yifan Yang , Mei Ye , Tingxuan Zeng , Shuihan Zhang , Wei Zhang , Aiqiang Zhang , Bin Zhang , Siyao Zhao , Changge Zi , Sebastiano Aiello , Giuseppe Andronico , Vito Antonelli , Andrea Barresi , Davide Basilico , Marco Beretta , Augusto Brigatti , Riccardo Bruno , Antonio Budano , Barbara Caccianiga , Antonio Cammi , Stefano Campese , Davide Chiesa , Catia Clementi , Marco Cordelli , Stefano Dusini , Andrea Fabbri , Giulietto Felici , Federico Ferraro , Marco Giulio Giammarchi , Cecilia Landini , Paolo Lombardi , Claudio Lombardo , Andrea Maino , Fabio Mantovani , Stefano Maria Mari , Agnese Martini , Emanuela Meroni , Lino Miramonti , Michele Montuschi , Massimiliano Nastasi , Domizia Orestano , Fausto Ortica , Alessandro Paoloni , Sergio Parmeggiano , Fabrizio Petrucci , Ezio Previtali , Gioacchino Ranucci , Alessandra Carlotta Re , Barbara Ricci , Aldo Romani , Paolo Saggese , Simone Sanfilippo , Chiara Sirignano , Monica Sisti , Luca Stanco , Virginia Strati , Francesco Tortorici , Cristina Tuvé , Carlo Venettacci , Giuseppe Verde , Lucia Votano

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a neutrino experiment to determine neutrino mass hierarchy. It has a central detector used for neutrino detection, which consists of a spherical acrylic vessel containing 20 kt LS and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Tao Lin , Jiaheng Zou , Weidong Li , Ziyan Deng , Guofu Cao , Xingtao Huang , Zhengyun You

The radioactive noble gas $^{222}$Rn, which can be dissolved in water, is an important background source for JUNO. In this paper, based on the water system of JUNO prototype, two kinds of high sensitivity radon detectors have been proposed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-12-15 Y. P. Zhang , J. C. Liu , C. Guo , Y. B. Huang , Z. Y. Yu , C. Xu , M. Y. Guan , C. G. Yang , P. Zhang

The atmospheric neutrino flux represents a continuous source that can be exploited to infer properties about Cosmic Rays and neutrino oscillation physics. The JUNO observatory, a 20 kt liquid scintillator currently under construction in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-12-08 G. Settanta , S. M. Mari , C. Martellini , P. Montini

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory(JUNO) is a state-of-the-art liquid scintillator-based neutrino physics experiment under construction in South China. To reduce the background from external radioactivities, a water Cherenkov…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-20 T. Y. Guan , Y. P. Zhang , B. Wang , C. Guo , J. C. Liu , Q. Tang , C. G. Yang , C. Li

Observation of supernovae (SN) through their neutrino emission is a fundamental point to understand both SN dynamics and neutrino physical properties. JUNO is a 20kton liquid scintillator detector, under construction in Jiangmen, China. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-09 C. Martellini , S. M. Mari , P. Montini , G. Settanta

The JUNO observatory is a medium baseline experiment in construction in China. A large liquid scintillator volume detects the antineutrinos issued from nuclear reactors. The liquid scintillator detector is instrumented with 17000 large…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-27 Yifan Yang , Barbara Clerbaux

Superconducting Tunnel Junctions (STJs) are used as high-resolution quantum sensors to search for evidence of sterile neutrinos in the electron capture decay of $^7$Be. We are developing spatially-resolved Monte-Carlo simulations of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Connor E. Bray , Larry J. Hiller , Kyle G. Leach , Stephan Friedrich

A toy detector has been designed to simulate central detectors in reactor neutrino experiments in the paper. The electron samples from the Monte-Carlo simulation of the toy detector have been reconstructed by the method of Bayesian neural…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-05-05 Ye Xu , Weiwei Xu , Yixiong Meng , Kaien Zhu , Wei Xu

A UV laser calibration system is developed for the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), a 20-kton liquid scintillator-based, long baseline reactor anti-neutrino experiment. This system is capable of delivering fast laser pulses…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-30 Yuanyuan Zhang , Jianglai Liu , Mengjiao Xiao , Feiyang Zhang , Tao Zhang