Astroparticle Colloquia

JUNO experiment and the neutrino mass hierarchy measurement

by Prof. Alessandro Paoloni (INFN)

Europe/Rome
Description

The neutrino mass hierarchy (NMH) is one of the presently open issues in 
neutrino physics.
The JUNO experiment, whose installation is scheduled to finish within 
2022, will takle this puzzle in 6 years of data taking, exploiting 
electron anti-neutrinos produced by two nuclear power complexes located 
in the GuangDong province of China Popular Republic.
In the first part of the seminar the state-of-the-art of neutrino 
oscillations will be presented and the perspectives of JUNO and other 
experiments about NMH discussed.
The design guide-lines of JUNO will be then explained and the detector 
described.
Its physics potential beyond NMH will also be treated.