Physics prospects of the Jinping neutrino experiment

The China Jinping Underground Laboratory（CJPL）, which has the lowest cosmic-ray muon flux and the lowest reactor neutrino flux of any laboratory, is ideal to carry out low-energy neutrino experiments. With two detectors and a total fiducial mass of 2000 tons for solar neutrino physics（equivalently,...

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Published inChinese physics C Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 9 - 32
Main Authors Beacom, John F., Chen, Shaomin, Cheng, Jianping, Doustimotlagh, Sayed N., Gao, Yuanning, Gong, Guanghua, Gong, Hui, Guo, Lei, Han, Ran, He, Hong-Jian, Huang, Xingtao, Li, Jianmin, Li, Jin, Li, Mohan, Li, Xueqian, Liao, Wei, Lin, Guey-Lin, Liu, Zuowei, McDonough, William, Šrámek, Ondřej, Tang, Jian, Wan, Linyan, Wang, Yuanqing, Wang, Zhe, Wang, Zongyi, Wei, Hanyu, Xi, Yufei, Xu, Ye, Xu, Xun-Jie, Yang, Zhenwei, Yao, Chunfa, Yeh, Minfang, Yue, Qian, Zhang, Liming, Zhang, Yang, Zhao, Zhihong, Zheng, Yangheng, Zhou, Xiang, Zhu, Xianglei, Zuber, Kai
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.02.2017
Subjects
中微子实验
中微子探测器
中微子通量
地下实验室
太阳中微子
实验物理
展望
超新星中微子
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ISSN1674-1137
0254-3052
DOI10.1088/1674-1137/41/2/023002

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Summary:The China Jinping Underground Laboratory（CJPL）, which has the lowest cosmic-ray muon flux and the lowest reactor neutrino flux of any laboratory, is ideal to carry out low-energy neutrino experiments. With two detectors and a total fiducial mass of 2000 tons for solar neutrino physics（equivalently, 3000 tons for geo-neutrino and supernova neutrino physics）, the Jinping neutrino experiment will have the potential to identify the neutrinos from the CNO fusion cycles of the Sun, to cover the transition phase for the solar neutrino oscillation from vacuum to matter mixing, and to measure the geo-neutrino flux, including the Th/U ratio. These goals can be fulfilled with mature existing techniques. Efforts on increasing the target mass with multi-modular neutrino detectors and on developing the slow liquid scintillator will increase the Jinping discovery potential in the study of solar neutrinos,geo-neutrinos, supernova neutrinos, and dark matter.
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John F.Beacom,Shaomin Chen,Jianping Cheng,Sayed N.Doustimotlagh,Yuanning Gao,Guanghua Gong,Hui Gong,Lei Guo,Ran Han,Hong-Jian He,Xingtao Huang,Jianmin Li,Jin Li,Mohan Li,Xueqian Li,Wei Liao,Guey-Lin Lin,Zuowei Liu,William Mc Donough,Ondˇrej rmek,Jian Tang,Linyan Wan,Yuanqing Wang,Zhe Wang,Zongyi Wang,Hanyu Wei,Yufei Xi,Ye Xu,Xun-Jie Xu,Zhenwei Yang,Chunfa Yao,Minfang Yeh,Qian Yue,Liming Zhang,Yang Zhang,Zhihong Zhao,Yangheng Zheng,Xiang Zhou,Xianglei Zhu,Kai Zuber （1 Dept. of Physics, Dept. of Astronomy, and CCAPP, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210 ; 2 Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084 ;3 Science and Technology on Reliability and Environmental Engineering Laboratory, Beijing Institute of Spacecraft Environment Engineering, Beijing 100094 ; 4 School of Physics, Shandong University, Jinan 250100 ;5 School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300371 ;6 Institute of Modern Physics, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237 ; 7 Institute of Physics, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinehu ;8 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 ; 9 Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Prague ;10 School of Physics, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275 ; 11 Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084; 12 Institute of Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Shijiazhuang 050061 ;13 Fujian University of Technology, Fujian 350118 ; 14 Department of Structural Steels, China Iron ＆ Steel Research Institute Group 100081 ;15 Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973 ;16 School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049 ; 17 School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072 ;18 Institut fur Kern- und Teilchenphysik, Technische Universitat Dresden, Dresden 01069）
The China Jinping Underground Laboratory（CJPL）, which has the lowest cosmic-ray muon flux and the lowest reactor neutrino flux of any laboratory, is ideal to carry out low-energy neutrino experiments. With two detectors and a total fiducial mass of 2000 tons for solar neutrino physics（equivalently, 3000 tons for geo-neutrino and supernova neutrino physics）, the Jinping neutrino experiment will have the potential to identify the neutrinos from the CNO fusion cycles of the Sun, to cover the transition phase for the solar neutrino oscillation from vacuum to matter mixing, and to measure the geo-neutrino flux, including the Th/U ratio. These goals can be fulfilled with mature existing techniques. Efforts on increasing the target mass with multi-modular neutrino detectors and on developing the slow liquid scintillator will increase the Jinping discovery potential in the study of solar neutrinos,geo-neutrinos, supernova neutrinos, and dark matter.
CJPL; Jinping neutrino experiment; solar neutrino; geo-neutrino; supernova neutrino
ISSN:1674-1137
0254-3052
DOI:10.1088/1674-1137/41/2/023002