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VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Livia Ludhova (RWTH)

October 30, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Speaker: Livia Ludhova (RWTH Aachen/Forschungszentrum Jülich)

Title: JUNO: the first multi-kton liquid scintillator based neutrino detector

Abstract:

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a neutrino experiment under construction in a 700 m deep underground laboratory near Jiangmen in South China. The detector main component will be 20 kton of liquid scintillator held in a spherical acrylic vessel. The experiment is designed for the determination of the neutrino mass ordering, one of the open key questions in neutrino physics. This measurement will be based on the observation of vacuum oscillation of antineutrinos from two nuclear power plants at 53 km baseline. A key ingredient for the success is an excellent and extremely challenging energy resolution of 3% at 1 MeV. The light produced by the scintillator will be seen by about 20,000 large PMTs (20”) and about 25,000 small PMTs (3”). The OSIRIS detector will monitor the radio-purity of the liquid scintillator during the months-long filling of the main detector, while the unoscillated spectrum from one reactor core is planned to be closely monitored by the Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (TAO). JUNO will also measure several neutrino oscillation parameters with unprecedented sub-percent precision. Astrophysical measurements of solar, geo, supernova, DSNB, atmospheric neutrinos, as well as searches for proton decay or dark matter are also a part of the vast physics programme. The seminar will review the physics goals, design, as well as the status of the JUNO project.

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Details

Date:: October 30, 2020
Time:: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

INPA guests from campus can now come to the lab early on Fridays. The INPA Common Room (50-5026) is reserved for our guests from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Note that the seminars are now held in 50A-5132 to accommodate a more significant number of attendees.

CPTea Series (also known as INPA Tea Series)

The Physics Division CPTea Series invites you to an In-Person Tea Series 1st Friday of every month at 3:30 pm INPA Conference Room 50-5026.

Everyone is welcome to attend the open forum. Tea and light refreshments will be served.

INPA Common Room (50-5026)
Fridays
3:30 pm

Access to the Lab

For a shuttle pass, please email Erica Hall. The pass is only valid for the day of the seminar.

Erica Hall