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Ultra-trace analysis of U and Th in organic liquid scintillators with high sensitivity
A. Barresi, D. Chiesa, D. Merli +63
Rare event searches demand extremely low background levels, necessitating ever-advancing screening techniques to enhance sensitivity. Liquid scintillators are highly attractive as…
Design, waterproofing, and mass production of the 3-inch PMT frontend system of JUNO
Jilei Xu, Miao He, Cédric Cerna +628
Over 25,600 3-inch photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) have been instrumented for the central detector of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory. Each PMT is equipped with a high-v…
Simulation of the Background from CO Reaction in the JUNO Scintillator
JUNO Collaboration, Thomas Adam, Kai Adamowicz +627
Large-scale organic liquid scintillator detectors are highly efficient in the detection of MeV-scale electron antineutrinos. These signal events can be detected through inverse bet…
Fluorescence emission of the JUNO liquid scintillator
M. Beretta, F. Houria, F. Ferraro +65
JUNO is a huge neutrino detector that will use 20 kton of organic liquid scintillator as its detection medium. The scintillator is a mixture of linear alkyl benzene (LAB), 2.5 g/L…
Distillation and Stripping purification plants for JUNO liquid scintillator
C. Landini, M. Beretta, P. Lombardi +64
The optical and radiochemical purification of the scintillating liquid, which will fill the central detector of the JUNO experiment, plays a crucial role in achieving its scientifi…
Interpretable machine learning approach for electron antineutrino selection in a large liquid scintillator detector
A. Gavrikov, V. Cerrone, A. Serafini +65
Several neutrino detectors, KamLAND, Daya Bay, Double Chooz, RENO, and the forthcoming large-scale JUNO, rely on liquid scintillator to detect reactor antineutrino interactions. In…
Refractive index in the JUNO liquid scintillator
H. S. Zhang, M. Beretta, S. Cialdi +73
In the field of rare event physics, it is common to have huge masses of organic liquid scintillator as detection medium. In particular, they are widely used to study neutrino prope…
The Design and Technology Development of the JUNO Central Detector
The JUNO Collaboration
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a large scale neutrino experiment with multiple physics goals including deter mining the neutrino mass hierarchy, the accura…
Analysis of reactor burnup simulation uncertainties for antineutrino spectrum prediction
A. Barresi, M. Borghesi, A. Cammi +64
Nuclear reactors are a source of electron antineutrinos due to the presence of unstable fission products that undergo decay. They will be exploited by the JUNO experiment to…
Implementation and performances of the IPbus protocol for the JUNO Large-PMT readout electronics
Riccardo Triozzi, Andrea Serafini, Marco Bellato +129
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a large neutrino detector currently under construction in China. Thanks to the tight requirements on its optical and radio-p…
Mass testing of the JUNO experiment 20-inch PMTs readout electronics
Alberto Coppi, Beatrice Jelmini, Marco Bellato +129
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multi-purpose, large size, liquid scintillator experiment under construction in China. JUNO will perform leading measureme…
Validation and integration tests of the JUNO 20-inch PMTs readout electronics
Vanessa Cerrone, Katharina von Sturm, Marco Bellato +127
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a large neutrino detector currently under construction in China. JUNO will be able to study the neutrino mass ordering and t…
Mass Testing and Characterization of 20-inch PMTs for JUNO
Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam, Shakeel Ahmad +556
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…
Radioactivity control strategy for the JUNO detector
JUNO collaboration, Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam +594
JUNO is a massive liquid scintillator detector with a primary scientific goal of determining the neutrino mass ordering by studying the oscillated anti-neutrino flux coming from tw…
The Design and Sensitivity of JUNO's scintillator radiopurity pre-detector OSIRIS
JUNO Collaboration, Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam +598
The OSIRIS detector is a subsystem of the liquid scintillator fillling chain of the JUNO reactor neutrino experiment. Its purpose is to validate the radiopurity of the scintillator…
TAO Conceptual Design Report: A Precision Measurement of the Reactor Antineutrino Spectrum with Sub-percent Energy Resolution
JUNO Collaboration, Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam +585
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 scintillato…
Embedded Readout Electronics R&D for the Large PMTs in the JUNO Experiment
M. Bellato, A. Bergnoli, A. Brugnera +91
Jiangmen Underground neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a next generation liquid scintillator neutrino experiment under construction phase in South China. Thanks to the anti-neutrinos…
Rn contamination mechanisms on acrylic surfaces
M. Nastasi, A. Paonessa, E. Previtali +64
In this work, the Rn contamination mechanisms on acrylic surfaces have been investigated. Rn can represent a significant background source for low-background experi…
Distillation and stripping pilot plants for the JUNO neutrino detector: design, operations and reliability
P. Lombardi, M. Montuschi, A. Formozov +68
This paper describes the design, construction principles and operations of the distillation and stripping pilot plants tested at the Daya Bay Neutrino Laboratory, with the perspect…
Charge reconstruction in large-area photomultipliers
M. Grassi, M. Montuschi, M. Baldoncini +60
Large-area PhotoMultiplier Tubes (PMT) allow to efficiently instrument Liquid Scintillator (LS) neutrino detectors, where large target masses are pivotal to compensate for neutrino…
The Electronics, Trigger and Data Acquisition System for the Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber of the DarkSide-50 Search for Dark Matter
DarkSide Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque +177
The DarkSide-50 experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso is a search for dark matter using a dual phase time projection chamber with 50 kg of low radioactivity argon a…
Effect of Low Electric Fields on Alpha Scintillation Light Yield in Liquid Argon
P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque, T. Alexander +158
Measurements were made of scintillation light yield of alpha particles from the Rn decay chain within the DarkSide-50 liquid argon time projection chamber. The light yield…
CALIS - a CALibration Insertion System for the DarkSide-50 dark matter search experiment
P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque, T. Alexander +162
This paper describes the design, fabrication, commissioning and use of a CALibration source Insertion System (CALIS) in the DarkSide-50 direct dark matter search experiment. CALIS…
The Electronics and Data Acquisition System for the DarkSide-50 Veto Detectors
P. Agnes, L. Agostino, I. F. M. Albuquerque +155
DarkSide-50 is a detector for dark matter candidates in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). It utilizes a liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr TPC) for t…