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We show that the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), with significant but feasible new efforts, has the potential to deliver world-leading results in solar neutrinos. With a 100 kton-year exposure, DUNE could detect $\gtrsim 10^5$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-27 Francesco Capozzi , Shirley Weishi Li , Guanying Zhu , 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

We show that the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) has the potential to make a precise measurement of the total active flux of 8B solar neutrinos via neutral-current (NC) interactions with argon. This would complement proposed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-03 Stephan A. Meighen-Berger , Jayden L. Newstead , John F. Beacom , Nicole F. Bell , Matthew J. Dolan

The recent results from the JUNO reactor neutrino experiment have significantly improved our knowledge of the solar mixing angle $\theta_{12}$ and the solar mass splitting $\Delta m^2_{21}$. We study the impact of these improved estimates…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-21 Debasish Borah , Pritam Das , Debajyoti Dutta

Geo-neutrino studies are based on theoretical estimates of geo-neutrino spectra. We propose a method for a direct measurement of the energy distribution of antineutrinos from decays of long-lived radioactive isotopes. We present preliminary…

One of the main open issues of neutrino physics is the determination of the mass hierarchy, discriminating between the two possible ordering of the mass eigenvalues, known as Normal and Inverted Hierarchies. The solution of this puzzle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-20 V. Antonelli , L. Miramonti

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

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) uses 20k tons of liquid scintillator (LS)to detect neutrinos. The content of radioactive substances in the liquid scintillator will affect theexperimental results. JUNO will use counter…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-09 Jiaxuan Ye , Jian Fang , Tao hu , Li Zhou , Wei Hu , Wanjin Liu , Yayun Ding , Mengchao Liu , Boxiang Yu , Xilei Sun , Lijun Sun , Yuguang Xie , Xiao Cai

A significant fraction of the 44TW of heat dissipation from the Earth's interior is believed to originate from the decays of terrestrial uranium and thorium. The only estimates of this radiogenic heat, which is the driving force for mantle…

Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is designed to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy using a 20 kton liquid scintillator detector. To calibrate detector boundary effect, the Guide Tube Calibration System (GTCS) has been…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 Yuhang Guo , Qingmin Zhang , Feiyang Zhang , Mengjiao Xiao , Jianglai Liu , Eryuan Qu

Models that envisage successful subduction channel transport of upper crustal materials below 300 km depth, past a critical phase transition in buoyant crustal lithologies, are capable of accumulating and assembling these materials into…

Geophysics · Physics 2018-10-26 Bedrich Roskovec , Ondrej Sramek , William F. McDonough

China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL) is ideal for studying solar-, geo-, and supernova neutrinos. A precise measurement of the cosmic-ray background would play an essential role in proceeding with the R\&D research for these…

The KamLAND and Borexino experiments have observed, each at ~4 sigma level, signals of electron antineutrinos produced in the decay chains of thorium and uranium in the Earth's crust and mantle (Th and U geoneutrinos). Various pieces of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 G. Fiorentini , G. L. Fogli , E. Lisi , F. Mantovani , A. M. Rotunno

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

A high-statistics measurement of the neutrinos from a galactic core-collapse supernova is extremely important for understanding the explosion mechanism, and studying the intrinsic properties of neutrinos themselves. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Jia-Shu Lu , Jun Cao , Yu-Feng Li , Shun Zhou

Uranium and thorium within the Earth produce a major portion of terrestrial heat along with a measurable flux of electron antineutrinos. These elements are key components in geophysical and geochemical models. Their quantity and…

Geophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stephen T. Dye , Eugene H. Guillian

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

In this paper we review the search for astrophysical neutrinos. We begin by summarizing the various theoretical predictions which correlate the expected neutrino flux with data from other messengers, specifically gammas and ultra-high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-18 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Teresa Montaruli

The detection of electron anti-neutrinos from natural radioactivity in the earth has been a goal of neutrino researchers for about half a century. It was accomplished by the KamLAND Collaboration in 2005, and opens the way towards studies…

Geophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 John G. Learned

Measuring neutrino mass ordering (NMO) poses a fundamental challenge in neutrino physics. To address this, the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) experiment is scheduled to commence data collection in late 2024, with the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-03-03 Wenxing Fang , Weidong Li , Wuming Luo , Zhaoxiang Wu , Miao He