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most citedTheia: An advanced optical neutrino detector

139 citations · 587 across the 31 of their papers we have counts for

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35 papers

physics.ins-det2026

Cryogenic characterisation of the FBK NUV-HD-cryo Silicon Photomultipliers for the DarkSide-20k dark matter experiment

F. Acerbi, P. Adhikari, P. Agnes +298

Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) are highly promising detectors for dark matter searches due to their uniform response, scalability to large target masses, and compatib…

physics.ins-det2026

Final assessment of radioactive impurities in the JUNO detector

Thomas Adam, Fengpeng An, Costas Andreopoulos +569

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) collaboration has completed the construction of the 20,000-ton liquid scintillator detector and the associated muon veto detect…

hep-ex2026

A Low-energy Threshold and Multi-messenger Trigger System for the JUNO Experiment

Thomas Adam, Fengpeng An, Costas Andreopoulos +563

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a 20-kiloton liquid scintillator neutrino detector, located 650 meters (1800 m.w.e.) underground in Jiangmen, Guangdong, Chi…

physics.ins-det2026

Embedded underwater front-end electronics for the 3-inch photomultipliers in the JUNO experiment

Cédric Cerna, Miao He, Xiaoshan Jiang +591

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a 20-kton liquid scintillator-based, low-radioactivity, multi-purpose neutrino detector located 693 meters (1800 m.w.e.) und…

physics.ins-det2025

Picosecond laser test unit for photosensor characterization at ambient and low temperatures

Matthias Raphael Stock, Hans Th. J. Steiger, Ulrike Fahrendholz +2

Accurate single photoelectron (SPE) characterization of photosensors is essential for controlling systematic uncertainties in low-light neutrino and dark matter detectors. We prese…

hep-ex2025

Prospects for geoneutrino detection with JUNO

Thomas Adam, Shakeel Ahmad, Rizwan Ahmed +625

Geoneutrinos, which are antineutrinos emitted during the decay of long-lived radioactive elements inside Earth, serve as a unique tool for studying the composition and heat budget…

physics.ins-det2025★ 1 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2024

PALM -- Precision Attenuation Length Measurement in Liquid Scintillators

Vincent Rompel, Sabrina Franke, Florian Kübelbäck +6

Future neutrino experiments at low energies such as JUNO or THEIA will use large volume homogeneous liquid scintillator detectors. The optical attenuation length of the liquid is o…

physics.ins-det2024★ 3 cited

Status and Prospects of the JUNO Experiment

Matthias Raphael Stock

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multi-purpose neutrino experiment currently under construction in China. It is located 52.5km away from two nuclear power…

hep-ex2024

Development, Characterization and Production of a novel Water-based Liquid Scintillator based on the Surfactant TRITON X-100

Hans Th. J. Steiger, Manuel Böhles, Matthias Raphael Stock +7

Water-based Liquid Scintillator (WbLS) is a novel detector medium for particle physics experiments. Applications range from the use as hybrid Cherenkov/scintillation target in low-…

physics.ins-det2024

Development of a Bi-solvent Liquid Scintillator with Slow Light Emission

Hans Th. J. Steiger, Matthias Raphael Stock, Manuel Böhles +14

One of the most promising approaches for the next generation of neutrino experiments is the realization of large hybrid Cherenkov/scintillation detectors made possible by recent in…

hep-ex2024★ 34 cited

Potential to identify neutrino mass ordering with reactor antineutrinos at JUNO

JUNO Collaboration, Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam +622

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multi-purpose neutrino experiment under construction in South China. This paper presents an updated estimate of JUNO's sen…

hep-ex2024

JUNO Sensitivity to Invisible Decay Modes of Neutrons

JUNO Collaboration, Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam +651

We explore the decay of bound neutrons into invisible particles (e.g., or ) in the JUNO liquid scintillator detector, which do not produce an…

nucl-ex2023

Fast neutron production at the LNL Tandem from the Li(N,xn)X reaction

Pablo Torres-Sánchez, Hans Th. J. Steiger, Pierfrancesco Mastinu +11

Fast neutron beams are of relevance for many scientific and industrial applications. This paper explores fast neutron production using a TANDEM accelerator at the Legnaro National…

physics.ins-det2023

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…

hep-ex2023

Real-time Monitoring for the Next Core-Collapse Supernova in JUNO

Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam, Shakeel Ahmad +623

The core-collapse supernova (CCSN) is considered one of the most energetic astrophysical events in the universe. The early and prompt detection of neutrinos before (pre-SN) and dur…

hep-ex2023★ 12 cited

JUNO sensitivity to the annihilation of MeV dark matter in the galactic halo

JUNO Collaboration, Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam +596

We discuss JUNO sensitivity to the annihilation of MeV dark matter in the galactic halo via detecting inverse beta decay reactions of electron anti-neutrinos resulting from the ann…

hep-ex2023★ 17 cited

The JUNO experiment Top Tracker

JUNO Collaboration, Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam +609

The main task of the Top Tracker detector of the neutrino reactor experiment Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is to reconstruct and extrapolate atmospheric muon tra…

hep-ex2023

JUNO sensitivity to Be, , and CNO solar neutrinos

Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam, Shakeel Ahmad +609

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), the first multi-kton liquid scintillator detector, which is under construction in China, will have a unique potential to perfo…

hep-ex2022★ 26 cited

JUNO Sensitivity on Proton Decay Searches

JUNO Collaboration, Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam +602

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a large liquid scintillator detector designed to explore many topics in fundamental physics. In this paper, the potential on…

hep-ex2022★ 15 cited

Model Independent Approach of the JUNO B Solar Neutrino Program

JUNO Collaboration, Jie Zhao, Baobiao Yue +593

The physics potential of detecting B solar neutrinos will be exploited at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), in a model independent manner by using three dis…

physics.ins-det2022★ 64 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2022★ 7 cited

A Call to Arms Control: Synergies between Nonproliferation Applications of Neutrino Detectors and Large-Scale Fundamental Neutrino Physics Experiments

T. Akindele, T. Anderson, E. Anderssen +162

The High Energy Physics community can benefit from a natural synergy in research activities into next-generation large-scale water and scintillator neutrino detectors, now being st…

hep-ex2022★ 5 cited

White Paper on Light Sterile Neutrino Searches and Related Phenomenology

M. A. Acero, C. A. Argüelles, M. Hostert +169

This white paper provides a comprehensive review of our present understanding of experimental neutrino anomalies that remain unresolved, charting the progress achieved over the las…