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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 43: Astroparticle Physics II

HK 43.1: Group Report

Thursday, March 30, 2017, 14:00–14:30, F 073

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory — •Paul Christian Hackspacher for the JUNO collaboration — Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz & Excellence Cluster PRISMA

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a reactor neutrino experiment currently being built near the town of Kaiping in the Guangdong province in southern China. From 2020 onwards, the 20 kt liquid scintillator detector under 1900 mwe overburden is going to measure low-energy electron antineutrinos from two nuclear power plants, each with an oscillation baseline of 53 km to the experimental hall. By probing the flux spectrum with an energy resolution of 3% @ 1 MeV, the experiment is set out to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy with at least 3 σ significance. Further goals are improving the precision of solar oscillation parameters to below 1%, examining geoneutrinos and supernova neutrinos as well as the search for dark matter, sterile neutrinos and non-standard interactions. This will be an overview talk, presenting the current design, status and physics potential of the JUNO experiment.