Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory

Kaiping, China · built 2014

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a medium baseline reactor neutrino experiment currently operating at Kaiping, Jiangmen in Guangdong province in Southern China. It aims to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy and perform precision measurements of the Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix elements. Funding is provided by a collaboration of international institutions. JUNO is the world's largest transparent spherical detector. It is located 52.5 km from both of the Yangjiang and Taishan nuclear power plants. JUNO includes 750 member scientists from 17 countries, the largest international collaboration to work on an experiment in China.

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