JUNO's prospects for determining the neutrino mass ordering

9 Sept 2021, 16:00
15m
Parallel 1

Parallel 1

Oral WG 1

Speaker

Christoph Andreas Ternes (INFN, Sezione di Torino)

Description

The flagship measurement of the JUNO experiment is the determination of the neutrino mass ordering. Here we revisit the prospects of the JUNO experiment to make this determination by 2030, using the current global knowledge of the relevant neutrino parameters as well as current information on the reactor configuration and the critical parameters of the JUNO detector.
We pay particular attention to the non-linear detector energy response.
Using the measurement of $\theta_{13}$ from Daya Bay, but without information from other experiments, we estimate the probably of JUNO determining the neutrino mass ordering at 3 or more sigma to be \%.
After a couple of years operation, JUNO will improve our knowledge of $\sin^2 \theta_{12}$, $\Delta m^2_{21}$ and $|\Delta m^2_{ee}|$, this will allow an updated estimate of JUNO's probability of determining the neutrino mass ordering.

Working group WG1

Primary authors

Stephen Parke (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Christoph Andreas Ternes (INFN, Sezione di Torino) David Vanegas Forero (Universidad de Medellín) renata zukanovich funchal (Universidade de São Paulo)

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