Open AccessJinping Neutrino Experiment: a Status Report
Author(s) -
Benda Xu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1468/1/012212
Subject(s) - scintillator , neutrino , neutrino detector , detector , overburden , supernova , china , physics , nuclear physics , environmental science , neutrino oscillation , astronomy , engineering , mining engineering , optics , geography , archaeology
A large liquid scintillator detector is being discussed and actively developed in China JinPing underground Laboratory. We envision a 5kt detector at 7000-water-meter-equivalent overburden to target terrestrial, solar and supernovae neutrinos. A 1t prototype detector has been installed on-site in 2017. Liquid scintillator performance, radioactive and cosmogenic backgrounds, simulation and analysis pipelines have been carefully investigated. We report the status of the Jinping Neutrino Experiment project and milestones of R&D studies.