Jun 2 – 7, 2019
Carnegie Mellon University
America/New_York timezone

The prospect of precise measurement of the neutrino oscillation by JUNO

Jun 4, 2019, 2:30 PM
30m
Rangos 3

Rangos 3

Contributed Future Facilities and Directions Future Facilities

Speaker

Prof. Yuekun Heng (Institute of High Energy Physics)

Description

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multipurpose neutrino experiment in China with a 20-thousand-ton liquid scintillator detector of 3% (at 1 MeV) at 700-meter deep underground. The major goal of JUNO is determining neutrino mass hierarchy by precisely measuring the energy spectrum of reactor electron antineutrinos at a distance of ~53 km from the powerful reactors of the Yangjiang and Taishan Nuclear Power Plants. Also for all 6 neutrino oscillation parameters, JUNO is going to measure the 3 parameters of Δm^2_21, Δm^2_32 and sin^2θ_12 with the precision better than 1% . Considering the precision of sin^2θ_13 can be measured to ~4% by Daya Bay, the unitarity of the neutrino mixing matrix can be probed to 1% level. Besides, JUNO has other scientific possibilities such as supernova neutrinos, geo-neutrinos, solar neutrinos, atmospheric neutrinos, and exotic searches.

Graduate Student No
Early Consideration Yes

Primary author

Prof. Yuekun Heng (Institute of High Energy Physics)

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