Feasibility and physics potential of detecting 8B solar neutrinos at JUNO * *This work was supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Key R&D Program of China, the CAS Center for Excellence in Particle Physics, the Joint Large-Scale Scientific Facility Funds of the NSFC and CAS, Wuyi University, and the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, the Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique de Particules (IN2P3) in France, the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) in Italy, the Fond de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S-FNRS) and FWO under the “Excellence of Science – EOS” in Belgium, the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnològico in Brazil, the Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo in Chile, the Charles University Research Centre and the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports in Czech Republic, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Helmholtz Association, and the Cluster of Excellence PRISMA+ in Germany, the

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) features a 20 kt multi-purpose underground liquid scintillator sphere as its main detector. Some of JUNO's features make it an excellent location for 8B solar neutrino measurements, such as its low-energy threshold, high energy resolution compared with water Cherenkov detectors, and much larger target mass compared with previous liquid scintillator detectors. In this paper, we present a comprehensive assessment of JUNO's potential for detecting 8B solar neutrinos via the neutrino-electron elastic scattering process. A reduced 2 MeV threshold... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Abusleme, Angel
Adam, Thomas
Ahmad, Shakeel
Aiello, Sebastiano
Akram, Muhammad
Ali, Nawab
An, Fengpeng
An, Guangpeng
An, Qi
Andronico, Giuseppe
Anfimov, Nikolay
Antonelli, Vito
Antoshkina, Tatiana
Asavapibhop, Burin
de André, João Pedro Athayde Marcondes
Auguste, Didier
Babic, Andrej
Baldini, Wander
Barresi, Andrea
Baussan, Eric
Bellato, Marco
Bergnoli, Antonio
Bernieri, Enrico
Biare, David
Birkenfeld, Thilo
Blin, Sylvie
Blum, David
Blyth, Simon
Bolshakova, Anastasia
Bongrand, Mathieu
Bordereau, Clément
Breton, Dominique
Brigatti, Augusto
Brugnera, Riccardo
Bruno, Riccardo
Budano, Antonio
Buesken, Max
Buscemi, Mario
Busto, Jose
Butorov, Ilya
Cabrera, Anatael
Cai, Hao
Cai, Xiao
Cai, Yanke
Cai, Zhiyan
Cammi, Antonio
Campeny, Agustin
Cao, Chuanya
Cao, Guofu
Cao, Jun
Caruso, Rossella
Cerna, Cédric
Chang, Jinfan
Chang, Yun
Chen, Pingping
Chen, Po-An
Chen, Shaomin
Chen, Shenjian
Chen, Xurong
Chen, Yi-Wen
Chen, Yixue
Chen, Yu
Chen, Zhang
Cheng, Jie
Cheng, Yaping
Chepurnov, Alexander
Chiesa, Davide
Chimenti, Pietro
Chukanov, Artem
Chuvashova, Anna
Claverie, Gérard
Clementi, Catia
Clerbaux, Barbara
Di Lorenzo, Selma Conforti
Corti, Daniele
Costa, Salvatore
Dal Corso, Flavio
De La Taille, Christophe
Deng, Jiawei
Deng, Zhi
Deng, Ziyan
Depnering, Wilfried
Diaz, Marco
Ding, Xuefeng
Ding, Yayun
Dirgantara, Bayu
Dmitrievsky, Sergey
Dohnal, Tadeas
Donchenko, Georgy
Dong, Jianmeng
Dornic, Damien
Doroshkevich, Evgeny
Dracos, Marcos
Druillole, Frédéric
Du, Shuxian
Dusini, Stefano
Dvorak, Martin
Enqvist, Timo
Enzmann, Heike
Fabbri, Andrea
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Reihe/Periodikum: Chinese Physics C, vol 45, iss 2
Verlag/Hrsg.: eScholarship
University of California
Schlagwörter: neutrino oscillation / solar neutrino / JUNO / hep-ex / hep-ph / physics.ins-det / Atomic / Molecular / Nuclear / Particle and Plasma Physics / Nuclear & Particles Physics
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The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) features a 20 kt multi-purpose underground liquid scintillator sphere as its main detector. Some of JUNO's features make it an excellent location for 8B solar neutrino measurements, such as its low-energy threshold, high energy resolution compared with water Cherenkov detectors, and much larger target mass compared with previous liquid scintillator detectors. In this paper, we present a comprehensive assessment of JUNO's potential for detecting 8B solar neutrinos via the neutrino-electron elastic scattering process. A reduced 2 MeV threshold for the recoil electron energy is found to be achievable, assuming that the intrinsic radioactive background 238U and 232Th in the liquid scintillator can be controlled to 10-17g/g. With ten years of data acquisition, approximately 60,000 signal and 30,000 background events are expected. This large sample will enable an examination of the distortion of the recoil electron spectrum that is dominated by the neutrino flavor transformation in the dense solar matter, which will shed new light on the inconsistency between the measured electron spectra and the predictions of the standard three-flavor neutrino oscillation framework. If Δm221= 4.8 × 10-5(7.5 × 10-5) eV, JUNO can provide evidence of neutrino oscillation in the Earth at approximately the 3σ (2σ) level by measuring the non-zero signal rate variation with respect to the solar zenith angle. Moreover, JUNO can simultaneously measure Δm221using 8B solar neutrinos to a precision of 20% or better, depending on the central value, and to sub-percent precision using reactor antineutrinos. A comparison of these two measurements from the same detector will help understand the current mild inconsistency between the value of Δm221reported by solar neutrino experiments and the KamLAND experiment.