Poster (After Call)

FZJ-2023-04829

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png JUNO Sensitivity to Geoneutrinos

Morales Reveco, C. I.FZJ*

2023

This record in other databases:  

Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.34734/FZJ-2023-04829

Abstract: The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is an experiment being built in China, which consist of a 20 kt liquid scintillator detector. The main objective of the experiment is to determine the neutrino mass ordering by measuring reactor anti-neutrinos. The experiment is also expected to have a high sensitivity to geoneutrinos, electron antineutrinos from natural radioactivity decays from 238 Uranium, 232 Thorium in the Earth. The radiogenic heat released in these decays is in a well established relationship with the abundances of Uranium and Thorium. Thus, the measurement of geoneutrino flux can provide an insight on the Earth's energy budget. Within the first year of data taking, JUNO will be able to exceed the precision of the existing results from Borexino and KamLAND experiments. With increased statistics, JUNO will be able to measure Uranium and Thorium fluxes individually and to establish their ratio, yet another important parameter for geo-science community, giving insights about Earth's formation processes.The poster will demonstrate the expected JUNO sensitivity to geoneutrinos, by using Monte Carlo simulations of the signal and the most relevant backgrounds expected in the analysis.

---

Contributing Institute(s):

1. Experimentelle Hadrondynamik (IKP-2)

Research Program(s):

1. 612 - Cosmic Matter in the Laboratory (POF4-612) (POF4-612)

Appears in the scientific report 2023

---

Database coverage:

---