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Photonuclear Neutron Production in OpenMC: Verification Against MCNPX, FLUKA, and a First-Collision Analytical Solution
Lorenzo Loi, Andrea Missaglia, Carolina Introini +4
The modeling of photonuclear reactions is increasingly important for applications involving high-energy photon fields, including accelerator-driven neutron sources, radiation shiel…
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…
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…
Ultra-trace analysis of 40K in organic liquid scintillators
A. Barresi, D. Chiesa, D. Merli +64
Rare-event searches require exceptionally low background levels, motivating the development of increasingly sophisticated screening methods to push sensitivity limits. Liquid scint…
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…
Real-Time Wiener Deconvolution for feature reconstruction in JUNO
L. Lastrucci, M. Grassi, A. Triossi +74
In particle physics, experiments generate substantial amounts of data that can be difficult to process without preliminary scaling. To avoid losing potentially crucial data, experi…
Synchrotron-based Photonuclear Neutron Source for Energy, Medicine and Radiation Testing
Antonio Cammi, Lorenzo Loi, Andrea Missaglia +2
Neutron source availability is constrained by the declining number of research reactors and the challenging cost of spallation facilities, while compact accelerator-based sources r…
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…
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…
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…
An Innovative Photon-Driven Subcritical Reactor Concept Powered by Synchrotron Radiation Source
Antonio Cammi, Lorenzo Loi, Andrea Missaglia +2
This paper introduces the conceptual design of a Photon Driven Reactor (PDR), an innovative subcritical reactor designed for energy generation driven by a synchrotron radiation. Th…
Simulation-based inference for Precision Neutrino Physics through Neural Monte Carlo tuning
A. Gavrikov, A. Serafini, D. Dolzhikov +63
Precise modeling of detector energy response is crucial for next-generation neutrino experiments which present computational challenges due to lack of analytical likelihoods. We pr…
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…
Photonuclear treatment for spent fuel radiotoxicity reduction: a case study investigation on minor actinides
Antonio Cammi, Lorenzo Loi, Andrea Missaglia +3
The management of Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) is one of the main challenges in the decommissioning of nuclear power plants. Thermal reactors, such as Light Water Reactors (LWRs), prod…
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…
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…
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…