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The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory is building the world's largest liquid scintillator detector with a 20 kt target mass and about 700 m overburden. The total underground space of civil construction is about 300,000 m$^3$ with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-05 Chenyang Cui , Jie Zhao , Gaosong Li , Yongpeng Zhang , Cong Guo , Zhenning Qu , Yifang Wang , Xiaonan Li , Liangjian Wen , Miao He , Monica Sisti

This study evaluates more than 4,000 tiles made of Hamamatsu visual-sensitive silicon photomultipier (SiPM), each with dimensions of 5 $\times$ 5 cm$^2$, intended for the central detector of the Taishan Anti-neutrino Observatory (TAO), a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-07-24 X. Chen , G. F. Cao , M. H. Qu , H. W. Wang , N. Anfimov , A. Rybnikov , J. Y. Xu , A. Q. Su , Z. L. Chen , J. Cao , Y. C. Li , M. Qi

The Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (TAO) is a liquid-scintillator satellite experiment of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) to measure the reference reactor neutrino spectrum with unprecented energy resolution. We use…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-22 Xuewei Liu , Wei Dou , Benda Xu , Hanwen Wang , Guofu Cao

The Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (TAO) is a ton-level liquid scintillator detector to be placed at 30\,m from a core of the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant for precise reactor antineutrino spectrum measurements. One important background for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-07 Ruhui Li , Yichen Li , Zhimin Wang , Qiang Li , Liang Zhan , Jun Cao

An ASIC named CATIROC (Charge And Time Integrated Read Out Chip) has been developed for the next-generation neutrino experiments using a large number of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). Each CATIROC provides the time and the charge…

A Guide Tube Calibration System (GTCS) has been designed for the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), in order to measure the detector energy response near the outer radius of the active volume. Recently, a prototype system has…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-07-13 Yuhang Guo , Kangfu Zhu , Qingmin Zhang , Feiyang Zhang , Yue Meng , Jianglai Liu , Eryuan Qu

In a previous work [K.A. Meissner and H. Nicolai, Eur. Phys. J. C {\bf 84}, 269 (2024)], two of the present authors have suggested possible experimental ways to search for stable supermassive particles with electric charges of $\cO(1)$ in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-26 Adrianna Kruk , Michał Lesiuk , Krzysztof A. Meissner , Hermann Nicolai

The Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (TAO or JUNO-TAO) is a satellite observatory for the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), located 44 meters away from the No.1 reactor of the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant. TAO can measure the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-11 Jiayang Xu , Yichen Li , Zhan Liang , Guofu Cao , Zelin Chen

We take the JUNO experiment as an example to explore nuclearites in the future large liquid scintillator detector. Comparing to the previous calculations, the visible energy of nuclearites across the liquid scintillator will be reestimated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-25 Wan-Lei Guo , Cheng-Jun Xia , Tao Lin , Zhi-Min Wang

The Jinping Neutrino Experiment will perform an in-depth research on solar neutrinos and geo-neutrinos. Two structural options (i.e., cylindrical and spherical schemes) are proposed for the Jinping detector based on other successful…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-08 Zongyi Wang , Yuanqing Wang , Zhe Wang , Shaomin Chen , Xinxi Du , Tianxiong Zhang , Ziyi Guo , Huanxin Yuan

High precision vertex and energy reconstruction is crucial for large liquid scintillator detectors such as JUNO, especially for the determination of the neutrino mass ordering by analyzing the energy spectrum of reactor neutrinos. This…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-01 Gui-hong Huang , Wei Jiang , Liang-jian Wen , Yi-fang Wang , Wu-Ming Luo

Future accelerator neutrino experiments will provide a powerful tool to measure standard oscillation parameters and search for new physics. In this context, we discuss the prospects of building an accelerator neutrino experiment in China.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-03-01 Jian Tang , Sampsa Vihonen , Yu Xu

Neutrino geophysics, the study of the Earth's interior by measuring the fluxes of geologically produced neutrino at its surface, is a new interdisciplinary field of science, rapidly developing as a synergy between geology, geophysics and…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-10-22 Oleg Smirnov

Large-scale detectors consisting of a liquid scintillator target surrounded by an array of photo-multiplier tubes (PMTs) are widely used in the modern neutrino experiments: Borexino, KamLAND, Daya Bay, Double Chooz, RENO, and the upcoming…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-15 Arsenii Gavrikov , Yury Malyshkin , Fedor Ratnikov

Geoneutrinos serve as a potent tool for comprehending the radiogenic power and composition of Earth. Although geoneutrinos have been observed in prior experiments, the forthcoming generation of experiments,such as JUNO, will be necessary…

The Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation (RENO) experiment has been taking data using two identical liquid scintillator detectors of 44.5 tons since August 2011. The experiment has observed the disappearance of reactor neutrinos in…

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

Over the past ten years, several breakthroughs have been made in multi-messenger astronomy. Thanks to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, the detection of astrophysical neutrinos was proved to be practical. However, due to the limited…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-19 Huiming Zhang , Yudong Cui , Yunlei Huang , Sujie Lin , Yihan Liu , Zijian Qiu , Chengyu Shao , Yihan Shi , Caijin Xie , Lili Yang

We discuss unitarity tests of the neutrino mixing (PMNS) matrix. We show that the combination of solar neutrino experiments, medium-baseline and short-baseline reactor antineutrino experiments make it possible to perform the first direct…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-08-28 X. Qian , C. Zhang , M. Diwan , P. Vogel

The JUNO neutrino detector system is simulated using Monte-Carlo and analytical methods. A large number of proton decay events are also simulated. Preliminary results from this endeavor are presented in the present article.

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Srikanta Sinha