Potential of Core-Collapse Supernova Neutrino Detection at JUNO

JUNO is an underground neutrino observatory under construction in Jiangmen, China. It uses 20kton liquid scintillator as target, which enables it to detect supernova burst neutrinos of a large statistics for the next galactic core-collapse supernova (CCSN) and also pre-supernova neutrinos from the nearby CCSN progenitors. All flavors of supernova burst neutrinos can be detected by JUNO via several interaction channels, including inverse beta decay, elastic scattering on electron and proton, interactions on C12 nuclei, etc. This retains the possibility for JUNO to reconstruct the energy spectra of supernova burst neutrinos of all flavors. The real time monitoring systems based on FPGA and DAQ are under development in JUNO, which allow prompt alert and trigger-less data acquisition of CCSN events. The alert performances of both monitoring systems have been thoroughly studied using simulations. Moreover, once a CCSN is tagged, the system can give fast characterizations, such as directionality and light curve

Detection of the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background with JUNO

As an underground multi-purpose neutrino detector with 20 kton liquid scintillator, Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is competitive with and complementary to the water-Cherenkov detectors on the search for the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB). Typical supernova models predict 2-4 events per year within the optimal observation window in the JUNO detector. The dominant background is from the neutral-current (NC) interaction of atmospheric neutrinos with 12C nuclei, which surpasses the DSNB by more than one order of magnitude. We evaluated the systematic uncertainty of NC background from the spread of a variety of data-driven models and further developed a method to determine NC background within 15\% with {\it{in}} {\it{situ}} measurements after ten years of running. Besides, the NC-like backgrounds can be effectively suppressed by the intrinsic pulse-shape discrimination (PSD) capabilities of liquid scintillators. In this talk, I will present in detail the improvements on NC background uncertainty evaluation, PSD discriminator development, and finally, the potential of DSNB sensitivity in JUNO

Calibration du détecteur de Double Chooz et étude du bruit de fond induit par un rayonnement cosmique

Double Chooz is a short-baseline experiment, located at the Chooz power plant, designed to observe the neutrino oscillation signal controlled by the θ13 mixing angle. Part of my scientific research, as a graduate student, was directed towards the development of the software needed for the calibration of the Double Chooz Inner Veto and the analysis of the data associated with this task. I was responsible for the quality tests performed in every photomultiplier prior to its installation. I completed all the necessary measurements and analysed the data, extracting the first set of gains and determining the nominal high voltage values needed to be applied in all photomultipliers. All this information served as valuable input to the detector configuration. I was also responsible for the Inner Veto photomultiplier gain analysis during the first months of data taking. I was also very actively involved in data analysis and the estimations of the various sources of background. I initiated a number of methods to isolate and study the cosmic muon events that activate the detector. Additionally I worked on the estimation of the fast neutron rate registered in the detector. The techniques I put forward played a key role and were used in the first Double Chooz publication. Finally, I developed a set of algorithms to identify and reject an instrumental background, relevant for the Double Chooz detector using topological information of the deposited charge.Double Chooz est une expérience de type «court ligne de base», auprès des réacteurs nucléaires de Chooz, qui a été conçue pour observer les oscillations des neutrinos associées à l’angle de mélange θ13. Une partie de ma recherche était axée sur le développement du logiciel requis pour l'étalonnage de l’Inner Veto de Double Chooz et à l'analyse des données qui y sont associées. J'ai été responsable des tests de qualité effectués sur tous les photomultiplicateurs avant leur installation. J'ai fait toutes les mesures nécessaires et j'ai analysé la majorité des données. Grâce à ce travail, j'ai extrait les premières valeurs des gains et j’ai déterminé les valeurs nominales des hautes tensions nécessaires pour les photomultiplicateurs. Toutes ces données nous ont aidé dans la mise au point du détecteur. Aussi j'ai été le responsable de l'analyse de l’extraction et stabilité des gains pendant l’expérience. J'ai travaillé très activement sur l'analyse des données et en particulier sur l'évaluation des différentes sources de bruit de fond. J'ai développé plusieurs techniques pour isoler et étudier les muons cosmiques qui activent le détecteur Double Chooz. J'ai également travaillé sur l'estimation du taux de neutrons rapides. Les techniques que j'ai présentées ont été utilisées dans la première publication de Double Chooz. Finalement, j'ai étudié un bruit de fond instrumental important pour le détecteur Double Chooz. J'ai développé un nouvel ensemble d'algorithmes pour identifier et rejeter ces événements pathologiques utilisant l'orientation géométrique de la charge à l'intérieur du détecteur

Calibration du détecteur de Double Chooz et étude du bruit de fond induit par un rayonnement cosmique

Double Chooz est une expérience de type court ligne de base , auprès des réacteurs nucléaires de Chooz, qui a été conçue pour observer les oscillations des neutrinos associées à l angle de mélange 13. Une partie de ma recherche était axée sur le développement du logiciel requis pour l'étalonnage de l Inner Veto de Double Chooz et à l'analyse des données qui y sont associées. J'ai été responsable des tests de qualité effectués sur tous les photomultiplicateurs avant leur installation. J'ai fait toutes les mesures nécessaires et j'ai analysé la majorité des données. Grâce à ce travail, j'ai extrait les premières valeurs des gains et j ai déterminé les valeurs nominales des hautes tensions nécessaires pour les photomultiplicateurs. Toutes ces données nous ont aidé dans la mise au point du détecteur. Aussi j'ai été le responsable de l'analyse de l extraction et stabilité des gains pendant l expérience. J'ai travaillé très activement sur l'analyse des données et en particulier sur l'évaluation des différentes sources de bruit de fond. J'ai développé plusieurs techniques pour isoler et étudier les muons cosmiques qui activent le détecteur Double Chooz. J'ai également travaillé sur l'estimation du taux de neutrons rapides. Les techniques que j'ai présentées ont été utilisées dans la première publication de Double Chooz. Finalement, j'ai étudié un bruit de fond instrumental important pour le détecteur Double Chooz. J'ai développé un nouvel ensemble d'algorithmes pour identifier et rejeter ces événements pathologiques utilisant l'orientation géométrique de la charge à l'intérieur du détecteur.Double Chooz is a short-baseline experiment, located at the Chooz power plant, designed to observe the neutrino oscillation signal controlled by the 13 mixing angle. Part of my scientific research, as a graduate student, was directed towards the development of the software needed for the calibration of the Double Chooz Inner Veto and the analysis of the data associated with this task. I was responsible for the quality tests performed in every photomultiplier prior to its installation. I completed all the necessary measurements and analysed the data, extracting the first set of gains and determining the nominal high voltage values needed to be applied in all photomultipliers. All this information served as valuable input to the detector configuration. I was also responsible for the Inner Veto photomultiplier gain analysis during the first months of data taking. I was also very actively involved in data analysis and the estimations of the various sources of background. I initiated a number of methods to isolate and study the cosmic muon events that activate the detector. Additionally I worked on the estimation of the fast neutron rate registered in the detector. The techniques I put forward played a key role and were used in the first Double Chooz publication. Finally, I developed a set of algorithms to identify and reject an instrumental background, relevant for the Double Chooz detector using topological information of the deposited charge.STRASBOURG-Bib.electronique 063 (674829902) / SudocSudocFranceF

Neutrino mass ordering determination through combined analysis with JUNO and KM3NeT/ORCA

International audienceThe determination of neutrino mass ordering (NMO) is one of the prime goals of several neutrinoexperiments.KM3NeT/ORCA and JUNO are two next-generation neutrino oscillation experiments both aiming ataddressing this question.ORCA determines the NMO by probing Earth matter effects on the oscillation ofatmospheric neutrinos in the GeV energy range.JUNO, on the other hand, is sensitive to the NMO by investigating the interference effects offast oscillations in the reactor electron antineutrino spectrum at medium baseline.This poster presents the potential of determining the NMO through a combined analysis ofJUNO and ORCA data.When measuring the $\Delta m^2_{31}$ with a wrong ordering assumption, the best-fit valuesare different between the two experiments.This tension, together with good constraints on the $\Delta m^2_{31}$ measurement by bothexperiments, enhances the combined NMO sensitivity beyond the simple sum of their sensitivities.The analysis shows that 5$\sigma$ significance is reachable in less than 2 years of data takingwith both experiements for true normal neutrino mass ordering assuming current global best-fitvalues of the oscillation parameters, while 6 years will be needed for any other parameter set

Neutrino mass ordering determination through combined analysis with JUNO and KM3NeT/ORCA

International audienceThe determination of neutrino mass ordering (NMO) is one of the prime goals of several neutrino experiments. KM3NeT/ORCA and JUNO are two next-generation neutrino oscillation experiments both aiming at addressing this question. ORCA can determine the NMO by probing Earth matter effects on the oscillation of atmospheric neutrinos in the GeV energy range. JUNO, on the other hand, is sensitive to the NMO by investigating the interference effects of fast oscillations in the reactor electron antineutrino spectrum at medium baseline. This contribution presents the potential of determining the NMO through a combined analysis of JUNO and ORCA data. When measuring the Δm312 with a wrong ordering assumption, the best-fit values are different between the two experiments. This tension, together with good constraints on the Δm312 measurement by both experiments, enhances the combined NMO sensitivity beyond the simple sum of their sensitivities. The analysis shows that a 5 σ significance is reachable in less than 2 years of data taking with both experiments for true normal neutrino mass ordering, assuming current global best-fit values of the oscillation parameters, while 6 years will be needed for any other parameter set

Damping signatures at JUNO, a medium-baseline reactor neutrino oscillation experiment

Abstract We study damping signatures at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), a medium-baseline reactor neutrino oscillation experiment. These damping signatures are motivated by various new physics models, including quantum decoherence, nu(3) decay, neutrino absorption, and wave packet decoherence. The phenomenological effects of these models can be characterized by exponential damping factors at the probability level. We assess how well JUNO can constrain these damping parameters and how to disentangle these different damping signatures at JUNO. Compared to current experimental limits, JUNO can significantly improve the limits on tau(3)/m(3) in the nu(3) decay model, the width of the neutrino wave packet sigma(x), and the intrinsic relative dispersion of neutrino momentum sigma(rel)

Mass Testing and Characterization of 20-inch PMTs for JUNO

Main goal of the JUNO experiment is to determine the neutrino mass ordering using a 20kt liquid-scintillator detector. Its key feature is an excellent energy resolution of at least 3 % at 1 MeV, for which its instruments need to meet a certain quality and thus have to be fully characterized. More than 20,000 20-inch PMTs have been received and assessed by JUNO after a detailed testing program which began in 2017 and elapsed for about four years. Based on this mass characterization and a set of specific requirements, a good quality of all accepted PMTs could be ascertained. This paper presents the performed testing procedure with the designed testing systems as well as the statistical characteristics of all 20-inch PMTs intended to be used in the JUNO experiment, covering more than fifteen performance parameters including the photocathode uniformity. This constitutes the largest sample of 20-inch PMTs ever produced and studied in detail to date, i.e. 15,000 of the newly developed 20-inch MCP-PMTs from Northern Night Vision Technology Co. (NNVT) and 5,000 of dynode PMTs from Hamamatsu Photonics K. K.(HPK)

TAO Conceptual Design Report: A Precision Measurement of the Reactor Antineutrino Spectrum with Sub-percent Energy Resolution

The Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (TAO, also known as JUNO-TAO) is a satellite experiment of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO). A ton-level liquid scintillator detector will be placed at about 30 m from a core of the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant. The reactor antineutrino spectrum will be measured with sub-percent energy resolution, to provide a reference spectrum for future reactor neutrino experiments, and to provide a benchmark measurement to test nuclear databases. A spherical acrylic vessel containing 2.8 ton gadolinium-doped liquid scintillator will be viewed by 10 m^2 Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) of >50% photon detection efficiency with almost full coverage. The photoelectron yield is about 4500 per MeV, an order higher than any existing large-scale liquid scintillator detectors. The detector operates at -50 degree C to lower the dark noise of SiPMs to an acceptable level. The detector will measure about 2000 reactor antineutrinos per day, and is designed to be well shielded from cosmogenic backgrounds and ambient radioactivities to have about 10% background-to-signal ratio. The experiment is expected to start operation in 2022

The JUNO experiment Top Tracker

20 pagesInternational audienceThe main task of the Top Tracker detector of the neutrino reactor experiment Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is to reconstruct and extrapolate atmospheric muon tracks down to the central detector. This muon tracker will help to evaluate the contribution of the cosmogenic background to the signal. The Top Tracker is located above JUNO's water Cherenkov Detector and Central Detector, covering about 60% of the surface above them. The JUNO Top Tracker is constituted by the decommissioned OPERA experiment Target Tracker modules. The technology used consists in walls of two planes of plastic scintillator strips, one per transverse direction. Wavelength shifting fibres collect the light signal emitted by the scintillator strips and guide it to both ends where it is read by multianode photomultiplier tubes. Compared to the OPERA Target Tracker, the JUNO Top Tracker uses new electronics able to cope with the high rate produced by the high rock radioactivity compared to the one in Gran Sasso underground laboratory. This paper will present the new electronics and mechanical structure developed for the Top Tracker of JUNO along with its expected performance based on the current detector simulation