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Volume 473 - 12th Neutrino Oscillation Workshop (NOW2024) - Session 1: Standard three-neutrino oscillations
JUNO sensitivity to mass ordering and oscillation parameters
V. Cerrone*  on behalf of the JUNO collaboration
*: corresponding author
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Published on: March 20, 2025
Abstract
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multi-purpose neutrino experiment in South China, currently in the final stage of construction. It is located in an underground laboratory with approximately 650 m of rock overburden (1800 m.w.e.). The detector consists of a 20 kton liquid scintillator target, contained inside a 35.4-meter-diameter spherical acrylic vessel. The central detector (CD) is equipped with 17,612 20-inch and 25,600 3-inch Photomultipliers Tubes (PMTs), providing more than 75% total photocathode coverage.
JUNO's main goal is the determination of the neutrino mass ordering with reactor antineutrinos, emitted from two adjacent nuclear power plants on a 52.5 km baseline from the experimental site. JUNO's strategic location at a baseline corresponding to the first solar oscillation maximum, where the kinematic phase Δ21π2, grants it the unique capability to simultaneously probe the effects of oscillations on both solar and atmospheric scales; moreover, it stands out as the first experiment to address the unresolved NMO question through vacuum-dominated oscillations and to simultaneously probe the effects of slow (Δm221) and fast (Δm231) oscillations.
Furthermore, the unparalleled size and energy resolution will enable to achieve a sub-percent precision on three parameters: Δm221, Δm231, and sin2θ12. JUNO will also have the capability to detect neutrinos generated by cosmic-ray showers interacting in the Earth's atmosphere. Atmospheric neutrinos offer a complementary sensitivity to the NMO, independent of reactor antineutrinos.
This contribution will focus on JUNO's oscillation physics potential, with a particular emphasis on the reactor antineutrino analysis.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.473.0011
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