(GIST OF SCIENCE REPORTER) JIANGMEN UNDERGROUND NEUTRINO OBSERVATORY

(GIST OF SCIENCE REPORTER) JIANGMEN UNDERGROUND NEUTRINO OBSERVATORY

(NOVEMBER-2024)

JIANGMEN UNDERGROUND NEUTRINO OBSERVATORY

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is an experiment under construction in China with the primary goal of determining the neutrino mass hierarchy (MH) with reactor anti-neutrinos. 

Key highlights: 

• The JUNO detector system consists of a central detector, an active veto system and a calibration system. 

• Due to its unprecedented scale and precision, JUNO will be an exceptional multipurpose detector with a rich physics program in neutrino oscillation, geo-neutrinos, astrophysical neutrinos and the search for physics beyond the Standard Model (sterile neutrinos, dark matter, proton decay and others).

About Neutrinos 

• Neutrinos are the most abundant particles that have mass in the universe. 

• Every time atomic nuclei come together (like in the sun) or break apart (like in a fission reactor or particle accelerator), they produce neutrinos.

• Once produced, these particles almost never interact with other matter. 

• Tens of trillions of neutrinos from the sun stream through your body every second, but you can’t feel them.

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