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Description
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a 20-kton liquid scintillator detector housed in a laboratory approximately 650 meters underground. Its primary scientific goal is to determine the neutrino mass ordering by studying the oscillated anti-neutrino flux emitted from two nuclear power plants located 53 kilometers away. Given the extremely low expected signal rate, only 60 anti-neutrino interaction counts per day, precise control of radioactive background sources is critical. JUNO also serves as an excellent facility for solar neutrino measurements, which demands even stricter radioactivity control.
This contribution systematically discusses the anticipated background components in JUNO’s liquid scintillator, and their impact on scientific goal.
| Neutrino Properties | current status of experimental measurements of oscillation parameters |
|---|---|
| Neutrino Telescopes & Multi-messenger | Solar neutrino, JUNO |
| Neutrino Theory & Cosmology | None |
| Data Science and Detector R&D | None |
