Neutrino Physics with JUNO
Abstract
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), a 20 kton multi-purpose underground liquid scintillator detector, was proposed with the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy as a primary physics goal. It is also capable of observing neutrinos from terrestrial and extra-terrestrial sources, including supernova burst neutrinos, diffuse supernova neutrino background, geoneutrinos, atmospheric neutrinos, solar neutrinos, as well as exotic searches such as nucleon decays, dark matter, sterile neutrinos, etc. We present the physics motivations and the anticipated performance of the JUNO detector for various proposed measurements. By detecting reactor antineutrinos from two power plants at 53-km distance, JUNO will determine the neutrino mass hierarchy at a 3-4 sigma significance with six years of running. The measurement of antineutrino spectrum will also lead to the precise determination of three out of the six oscillation parameters to an accuracy of better than 1\%. Neutrino burst from a typical core-collapse supernova at 10 kpc would lead to ~5000 inverse-beta-decay events and ~2000 all-flavor neutrino-proton elastic scattering events in JUNO. Detection of DSNB would provide valuable information on the cosmic star-formation rate and the average core-collapsed neutrino energy spectrum. Geo-neutrinos can be detected in JUNO with a rate of ~400 events per year, significantly improving the statistics of existing geoneutrino samples. The JUNO detector is sensitive to several exotic searches, e.g. proton decay via the decay channel. The JUNO detector will provide a unique facility to address many outstanding crucial questions in particle and astrophysics. It holds the great potential for further advancing our quest to understanding the fundamental properties of neutrinos, one of the building blocks of our Universe.
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@article{arxiv.1507.05613,
title = {Neutrino Physics with JUNO},
author = {Fengpeng An and Guangpeng An and Qi An and Vito Antonelli and Eric Baussan and John Beacom and Leonid Bezrukov and Simon Blyth and Riccardo Brugnera and Margherita Buizza Avanzini and Jose Busto and Anatael Cabrera and Hao Cai and Xiao Cai and Antonio Cammi and Guofu Cao and Jun Cao and Yun Chang and Shaomin Chen and Shenjian Chen and Yixue Chen and Davide Chiesa and Massimiliano Clemenza and Barbara Clerbaux and Janet Conrad and Davide D'Angelo and Herve De Kerret and Zhi Deng and Ziyan Deng and Yayun Ding and Zelimir Djurcic and Damien Dornic and Marcos Dracos and Olivier Drapier and Stefano Dusini and Stephen Dye and Timo Enqvist and Donghua Fan and Jian Fang and Laurent Favart and Richard Ford and Marianne Goger-Neff and Haonan Gan and Alberto Garfagnini and Marco Giammarchi and Maxim Gonchar and Guanghua Gong and Hui Gong and Michel Gonin and Marco Grassi and Christian Grewing and Mengyun Guan and Vic Guarino and Gang Guo and Wanlei Guo and Xin-Heng Guo and Caren Hagner and Ran Han and Miao He and Yuekun Heng and Yee Hsiung and Jun Hu and Shouyang Hu and Tao Hu and Hanxiong Huang and Xingtao Huang and Lei Huo and Ara Ioannisian and Manfred Jeitler and Xiangdong Ji and Xiaoshan Jiang and Cecile Jollet and Li Kang and Michael Karagounis and Narine Kazarian and Zinovy Krumshteyn and Andre Kruth and Pasi Kuusiniemi and Tobias Lachenmaier and Rupert Leitner and Chao Li and Jiaxing Li and Weidong Li and Weiguo Li and Xiaomei Li and Xiaonan Li and Yi Li and Yufeng Li and Zhi-Bing Li and Hao Liang and Guey-Lin Lin and Tao Lin and Yen-Hsun Lin and Jiajie Ling and Ivano Lippi and Dawei Liu and Hongbang Liu and Hu Liu and Jianglai Liu and Jianli Liu and Jinchang Liu and Qian Liu and Shubin Liu and Shulin Liu and Paolo Lombardi and Yongbing Long and Haoqi Lu and Jiashu Lu and Jingbin Lu and Junguang Lu and Bayarto Lubsandorzhiev and Livia Ludhova and Shu Luo and Vladimir Lyashuk and Randolph Mollenberg and Xubo Ma and Fabio Mantovani and Yajun Mao and Stefano M. Mari and William F. McDonough and Guang Meng and Anselmo Meregaglia and Emanuela Meroni and Mauro Mezzetto and Lino Miramonti and Thomas Mueller and Dmitry Naumov and Lothar Oberauer and Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux and Alexander Olshevskiy and Fausto Ortica and Alessandro Paoloni and Haiping Peng and Jen-Chieh Peng and Ezio Previtali and Ming Qi and Sen Qian and Xin Qian and Yongzhong Qian and Zhonghua Qin and Georg Raffelt and Gioacchino Ranucci and Barbara Ricci and Markus Robens and Aldo Romani and Xiangdong Ruan and Xichao Ruan and Giuseppe Salamanna and Mike Shaevitz and Valery Sinev and Chiara Sirignano and Monica Sisti and Oleg Smirnov and Michael Soiron and Achim Stahl and Luca Stanco and Jochen Steinmann and Xilei Sun and Yongjie Sun and Dmitriy Taichenachev and Jian Tang and Igor Tkachev and Wladyslaw Trzaska and Stefan van Waasen and Cristina Volpe and Vit Vorobel and Lucia Votano and Chung-Hsiang Wang and Guoli Wang and Hao Wang and Meng Wang and Ruiguang Wang and Siguang Wang and Wei Wang and Yi Wang and Yi Wang and Yifang Wang and Zhe Wang and Zheng Wang and Zhigang Wang and Zhimin Wang and Wei Wei and Liangjian Wen and Christopher Wiebusch and Bjorn Wonsak and Qun Wu and Claudia-Elisabeth Wulz and Michael Wurm and Yufei Xi and Dongmei Xia and Yuguang Xie and Zhi-zhong Xing and Jilei Xu and Baojun Yan and Changgen Yang and Chaowen Yang and Guang Yang and Lei Yang and Yifan Yang and Yu Yao and Ugur Yegin and Frederic Yermia and Zhengyun You and Boxiang Yu and Chunxu Yu and Zeyuan Yu and Sandra Zavatarelli and Liang Zhan and Chao Zhang and Hong-Hao Zhang and Jiawen Zhang and Jingbo Zhang and Qingmin Zhang and Yu-Mei Zhang and Zhenyu Zhang and Zhenghua Zhao and Yangheng Zheng and Weili Zhong and Guorong Zhou and Jing Zhou and Li Zhou and Rong Zhou and Shun Zhou and Wenxiong Zhou and Xiang Zhou and Yeling Zhou and Yufeng Zhou and Jiaheng Zou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.05613},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Version submitted to Journal of Physics G, with minor typo corrections. 222 Pages, 147 figures