| Title: |
JUNO sensitivity to invisible decay modes of neutrons |
| Authors: |
null, null; Abusleme, Angel; Adam, Thomas; Adamowicz, Kai; Ahmad, Shakeel; Ahmed, Rizwan; Aiello, Sebastiano; An, Fengpeng; An, Qi; Andronico, Giuseppe; Anfimov, Nikolay; Antonelli, Vito; Antoshkina, Tatiana; de André, João Pedro Athayde Marcondes; Auguste, Didier; Bai, Weidong; Balashov, Nikita; Baldini, Wander; Barresi, Andrea; Basilico, Davide; Baussan, Eric; Bellato, Marco; Beretta, Marco; Bergnoli, Antonio; Bick, Daniel; Bieger, Lukas; Biktemerova, Svetlana; Birkenfeld, Thilo; Blake, Iwan; Blyth, Simon; Bolshakova, Anastasia; Bongrand, Mathieu; Breton, Dominique; Brigatti, Augusto; Brugnera, Riccardo; Bruno, Riccardo; Budano, Antonio; Busto, Jose; Cabrera, Anatael; Caccianiga, Barbara; Cai, Hao; Cai, Xiao; Cai, Yanke; Cai, Zhiyan; Callier, Stéphane; Calvez, Steven; Cammi, Antonio; Campeny, Agustin; Cao, Chuanya; Cao, Guofu; Cao, Jun; Caruso, Rossella; Cerna, Cédric; Cerrone, Vanessa; Chang, Jinfan; Chang, Yun; Chatrabhuti, Auttakit; Chen, Chao; Chen, Guoming; Chen, Pingping; Chen, Shaomin; Chen, Xin; Chen, Yiming; Chen, Yixue; Chen, Yu; Chen, Zelin; Chen, Zhangming; Chen, Zhiyuan; Chen, Zikang; Cheng, Jie; Cheng, Yaping; Cheng, Yu Chin; Chepurnov, Alexander; Chetverikov, Alexey; Chiesa, Davide; Chimenti, Pietro; Chin, Yen-Ting; Chou, Po-Lin; Chu, Ziliang; Chukanov, Artem; Claverie, Gérard; Clementi, Catia; Clerbaux, Barbara; Molla, Marta Colomer; Lorenzo, Selma Conforti Di; Coppi, Alberto; Corti, Daniele; Csakli, Simon; Cui, Chenyang; Corso, Flavio Dal; Dalager, Olivia; Datta, Jaydeep; De La Taille, Christophe; Deng, Zhi; Deng, Ziyan; Ding, Xiaoyu; Ding, Xuefeng; Ding, Yayun; Dirgantara, Bayu; Dittrich, Carsten; Dmitrievsky, Sergey; Dohnal, Tadeas; Dolzhikov, Dmitry; Donchenko, Georgy; Dong, Jianmeng; Doroshkevich, Evgeny; Dou, Wei; Dracos, Marcos; Druillole, Frédéric; Du, Ran; Du, Shuxian; Duan, Yujie; Dugas, Katherine; Dusini, Stefano; Duyang, Hongyue; Eck, Jessica; Enqvist, Timo; Fabbri, Andrea; Fahrendholz, Ulrike; Fan, Lei; Fang, Jian; Fang, Wenxing; Fedoseev, Dmitry; Feng, Li-Cheng; Feng, Qichun; Ferraro, Federico; Fournier, Amélie; Fritsch, Fritsch; Gan, Haonan; Gao, Feng; Garfagnini, Alberto; Gavrikov, Arsenii; Giammarchi, Marco; Giudice, Nunzio; Gonchar, Maxim; Gong, Guanghua; Gong, Hui; Gornushkin, Yuri; Grassi, Marco; Gromov, Maxim; Gromov, Vasily; Gu, Minghao; Gu, Xiaofei; Gu, Yu; Guan, Mengyun; Guan, Yuduo; Guardone, Nunzio; Guizzetti, Rosa Maria; Guo, Cong; Guo, Wanlei; Hagner, Caren; Han, Hechong; Han, Ran; Han, Yang; He, Jinhong; He, Miao; He, Wei; He, Xinhai; Heinz, Tobias; Hellmuth, Patrick; Heng, Yuekun; Herrera, Rafael; Hor, YuenKeung; Hou, Shaojing; Hsiung, Yee; Hu, Bei-Zhen; Hu, Hang; Hu, Jun; Hu, Peng; Hu, Shouyang; Hu, Tao; Hu, Yuxiang; Hu, Zhuojun; Huang, Guihong; Huang, Hanxiong; Huang, Jinhao; Huang, Junting; Huang, Kaixuan; Huang, Shengheng; Huang, Wenhao; Huang, Xin; Huang, Xingtao; Huang, Yongbo; Hui, Jiaqi; Huo, Lei; Huo, Wenju; Huss, Cédric; Hussain, Safeer; Imbert, Leonard; Ioannisian, Ara; Isocrate, Roberto; Jafar, Arshak; Jelmini, Beatrice; Jeria, Ignacio; Ji, Xiaolu; Jia, Huihui; Jia, Junji; Jian, Siyu; Jiang, Cailian; Jiang, Di; Jiang, Guangzheng; Jiang, Wei; Jiang, Xiaoshan; Jiang, Xiaozhao; Jiang, Yixuan; Jing, Xiaoping; Jollet, Cécile; Kang, Li; Karaparabil, Rebin; Kazarian, Narine; Khan, Ali; Khatun, Amina; Khosonthongkee, Khanchai; Korablev, Denis; Kouzakov, Konstantin; Krasnoperov, Alexey; Kuleshov, Sergey; Kumaran, Sindhujha; Kutovskiy, Nikolay; Labit, Loïc; Lachenmaier, Tobias; Lai, Haojing; Landini, Cecilia; Leblanc, Sébastien; Lefevre, Frederic; Lei, Ruiting; Leitner, Rupert; Leung, Jason; Li, Demin; Li, Fei; Li, Fule; Li, Gaosong; Li, Hongjian; Li, Huang; Li, Jiajun; Li, Min; Li, Nan; Li, Qingjiang; Li, Ruhui; Li, Rui; Li, Shanfeng; Li, Shuo; Li, Tao; Li, Teng; Li, Weidong; Li, Weiguo; Li, Xiaomei; Li, Xiaonan; Li, Xinglong; Li, Yi; Li, Yichen; Li, Yufeng; Li, Zhaohan; Li, Zhibing; Li, Ziyuan; Li, Zonghai; Liang, An-An; Liang, Hao; Liao, Jiajun; Liao, Yilin; Liao, Yuzhong; Limphirat, Ayut; Lin, Guey-Lin; Lin, Shengxin; Lin, Tao; Ling, Jiajie; Ling, Xin; Lippi, Ivano; Liu, Caimei; Liu, Fang; Liu, Fengcheng; Liu, Haidong; Liu, Haotian; Liu, Hongbang; Liu, Hongjuan; Liu, Hongtao; Liu, Hongyang; Liu, Jianglai; Liu, Jiaxi; Liu, Jinchang; Liu, Min; Liu, Qian; Liu, Qin; Liu, Runxuan; Liu, Shenghui; Liu, Shubin; Liu, Shulin; Liu, Xiaowei; Liu, Xiwen; Liu, Xuewei; Liu, Yankai; Liu, Zhen; Loi, Lorenzo; Lokhov, Alexey; Lombardi, Paolo; Lombardo, Claudio; Loo, Kai; Lu, Chuan; Lu, Haoqi; Lu, Jingbin; Lu, Junguang; Lu, Meishu; Lu, Peizhi; Lu, Shuxiang; Lu, Xianguo; Lubsandorzhiev, Bayarto; Lubsandorzhiev, Sultim; Ludhova, Livia; Lukanov, Arslan; Luo, Fengjiao; Luo, Guang; Luo, Jianyi; Luo, Shu; Luo, Wuming; Luo, Xiaojie; Lyashuk, Vladimir; Ma, Bangzheng; Ma, Bing; Ma, Qiumei; Ma, Si; Ma, Xiaoyan; Ma, Xubo; Maalmi, Jihane; Mai, Jingyu; Malabarba, Marco; Malyshkin, Yury; Mandujano, Roberto Carlos; Mantovani, Fabio; Mao, Xin; Mao, Yajun; Mari, Stefano M.; Marini, Filippo; Martini, Agnese; Mayer, Matthias; Mayilyan, Davit; Mednieks, Ints; Meng, Yue; Meraviglia, Anita; Meregaglia, Anselmo; Meroni, Emanuela; Miramonti, Lino; Mohan, Nikhil; Montuschi, Michele; Reveco, Cristobal Morales; Nastasi, Massimiliano; Naumov, Dmitry V.; Naumova, Elena; Navas-Nicolas, Diana; Nemchenok, Igor; Thi, Minh Thuan Nguyen; Nikolaev, Alexey; Ning, Feipeng; Ning, Zhe; Nunokawa, Hiroshi; Oberauer, Lothar; Ochoa-Ricoux, Juan Pedro; Olshevskiy, Alexander; Orestano, Domizia; Ortica, Fausto; Othegraven, Rainer; Paoloni, Alessandro; Parker, George; Parmeggiano, Sergio; Patsias, Achilleas; Pei, Yatian; Pelicci, Luca; Peng, Anguo; Peng, Haiping; Peng, Yu; Peng, Zhaoyuan; Percalli, Elisa; Perrin, Willy; Perrot, Frédéric; Petitjean, Pierre-Alexandre; Petrucci, Fabrizio; Pilarczyk, Oliver; Rico, Luis Felipe Piñeres; Popov, Artyom; Poussot, Pascal; Previtali, Ezio; Qi, Fazhi; Qi, Ming; Qi, Xiaohui; Qian, Sen; Qian, Xiaohui; Qian, Zhen; Qiao, Hao; Qin, Zhonghua; Qiu, Shoukang; Qu, Manhao; Qu, Zhenning; Ranucci, Gioacchino; Re, Alessandra; Rebii, Abdel; Redchuk, Mariia; Reina, Gioele; Ren, Bin; Ren, Jie; Ren, Yuhan; Ricci, Barbara; Rientong, Komkrit; Rifai, Mariam; Roche, Mathieu; Rodphai, Narongkiat; Romani, Aldo; Roskovec, Bedřich; Ruan, Xichao; Rybnikov, Arseniy; Sadovsky, Andrey; Saggese, Paolo; Sandanayake, Deshan; Sangka, Anut; Sava, Giuseppe; Sawangwit, Utane; Schever, Michaela; Schwab, Cédric; Schweizer, Konstantin; Selyunin, Alexandr; Serafini, Andrea; Settimo, Mariangela; Shao, Junyu; Sharov, Vladislav; Shi, Hexi; Shi, Jingyan; Shi, Yanan; Shutov, Vitaly; Sidorenkov, Andrey; Šimkovic, Fedor; Singhal, Apeksha; Sirignano, Chiara; Siripak, Jaruchit; Sisti, Monica; Smirnov, Mikhail; Smirnov, Oleg; Sokolov, Sergey; Songwadhana, Julanan; Soonthornthum, Boonrucksar; Sotnikov, Albert; Sreethawong, Warintorn; Stahl, Achim; Stanco, Luca; Stankevich, Konstantin; Steiger, Hans; Steinmann, Jochen; Sterr, Tobias; Stock, Matthias Raphael; Strati, Virginia; Strizh, Michail; Studenikin, Alexander; Su, Aoqi; Su, Jun; Sun, Guangbao; Sun, Shifeng; Sun, Xilei; Sun, Yongjie; Sun, Yongzhao; Sun, Zhengyang; Suwonjandee, Narumon; Takenaka, Akira; Tan, Xiaohan; Tang, Jian; Tang, Jingzhe; Tang, Qiang; Tang, Quan; Tang, Xiao; Hariharan, Vidhya Thara; Tkachev, Igor; Tmej, Tomas; Torri, Marco Danilo Claudio; Triossi, Andrea; Trzaska, Wladyslaw; Tung, Yu-Chen; Tuve, Cristina; Ushakov, Nikita; Vedin, Vadim; Venettacci, Carlo; Verde, Giuseppe; Vialkov, Maxim; Viaud, Benoit; Vollbrecht, Cornelius Moritz; Sturm, Katharina von; Vorobel, Vit; Voronin, Dmitriy; Votano, Lucia; Walker, Pablo; Wang, Caishen; Wang, Chung-Hsiang; Wang, En; Wang, Guoli; Wang, Hanwen; Wang, Jian; Wang, Jun; Wang, Li; Wang, Lu; Wang, Meng; Wang, Mingyuan; Wang, Qianchuan; Wang, Ruiguang; Wang, Sibo; Wang, Siguang; Wang, Wei; Wang, Wenshuai; Wang, Xi; Wang, Xiangyue; Wang, Yangfu; Wang, Yaoguang; Wang, Yi; Wang, Yifang; Wang, Yuanqing; Wang, Yuyi; Wang, Zhe; Wang, Zheng; Wang, Zhimin; Watcharangkool, Apimook; Wei, Wei; Wei, Wenlu; Wei, Yadong; Wei, Yuehuan; Wen, Liangjian; Weng, Jun; Wiebusch, Christopher; Wirth, Rosmarie; Wu, Chengxin; Wu, Diru; Wu, Qun; Wu, Yinhui; Wu, Yiyang; Wu, Zhi; Wurm, Michael; Wurtz, Jacques; Wysotzki, Christian; Xi, Yufei; Xia, Dongmei; Xian, Shishen; Xiang, Ziqian; Xiao, Fei; Xiao, Xiang; Xie, Xiaochuan; Xie, Yijun; Xie, Yuguang; Xin, Zhao; Xing, Zhizhong; Xu, Benda; Xu, Cheng; Xu, Donglian; Xu, Fanrong; Xu, Hangkun; Xu, Jiayang; Xu, Jilei; Xu, Jing; Xu, Jinghuan; Xu, Meihang; Xu, Xunjie; Xu, Yin; Xu, Yu; Yan, Baojun; Yan, Qiyu; Yan, Taylor; Yan, Xiongbo; Yan, Yupeng; Yang, Changgen; Yang, Chengfeng; Yang, Fengfan; Yang, Jie; Yang, Lei; Yang, Pengfei; Yang, Xiaoyu; Yang, Yifan; Yang, Yixiang; Yang, Zekun; Yao, Haifeng; Ye, Jiaxuan; Ye, Mei; Ye, Ziping; Yermia, Frédéric; You, Zhengyun; Yu, Boxiang; Yu, Chiye; Yu, Chunxu; Yu, Guojun; Yu, Hongzhao; Yu, Miao; Yu, Xianghui; Yu, Zeyuan; Yu, Zezhong; Yuan, Cenxi; Yuan, Chengzhuo; Yuan, Ying; Yuan, Zhenxiong; Yue, Baobiao; Zafar, Noman; Zamogilnyi, Kirill; Zavadskyi, Vitalii; Zeng, Fanrui; Zeng, Shan; Zeng, Tingxuan; Zeng, Yuda; Zhan, Liang; Zhang, Aiqiang; Zhang, Bin; Zhang, Binting; Zhang, Feiyang; Zhang, Hangchang; Zhang, Haosen; Zhang, Honghao; Zhang, Jialiang; Zhang, Jiawen; Zhang, Jie; Zhang, Jingbo; Zhang, Jinnan; Zhang, Junwei; Zhang, Lei; Zhang, Peng; Zhang, Ping; Zhang, Qingmin; Zhang, Shiqi; Zhang, Shu; Zhang, Shuihan; Zhang, Siyuan; Zhang, Tao; Zhang, Xiaomei; Zhang, Xin; Zhang, Xuantong; Zhang, Yibing; Zhang, Yinhong; Zhang, Yiyu; Zhang, Yongpeng; Zhang, Yu; Zhang, Yuanyuan; Zhang, Yumei; Zhang, Zhenyu; Zhang, Zhijian; Zhao, Jie; Zhao, Rong; Zhao, Runze; Zhao, Shujun; Zhao, Tianhao; Zheng, Hua; Zheng, Yangheng; Zhou, Jing; Zhou, Li; Zhou, Nan; Zhou, Shun; Zhou, Tong; Zhou, Xiang; Zhou, Xing; Zhu, Jingsen; Zhu, Kangfu; Zhu, Kejun; Zhu, Zhihang; Zhuang, Bo; Zhuang, Honglin; Zong, Liang; Zou, Jiaheng |
| Contributors: |
Null, Null; Abusleme, Angel; Adam, Thoma; Adamowicz, Kai; Ahmad, Shakeel; Ahmed, Rizwan; Aiello, Sebastiano; An, Fengpeng; An, Qi; Andronico, Giuseppe; Anfimov, Nikolay; Antonelli, Vito; Antoshkina, Tatiana; De André, João Pedro Athayde Marconde; Auguste, Didier; Bai, Weidong; Balashov, Nikita; Baldini, Wander; Barresi, Andrea; Basilico, Davide; Baussan, Eric; Bellato, Marco; Beretta, Marco; Bergnoli, Antonio; Bick, Daniel; Bieger, Luka; Biktemerova, Svetlana; Birkenfeld, Thilo; Blake, Iwan; Blyth, Simon; Bolshakova, Anastasia; Bongrand, Mathieu; Breton, Dominique; Brigatti, Augusto; Brugnera, Riccardo; Bruno, Riccardo; Budano, Antonio; Busto, Jose; Cabrera, Anatael; Caccianiga, Barbara; Cai, Hao; Cai, Xiao; Cai, Yanke; Cai, Zhiyan; Callier, Stéphane; Calvez, Steven; Cammi, Antonio; Campeny, Agustin; Cao, Chuanya; Cao, Guofu; Cao, Jun; Caruso, Rossella; Cerna, Cédric; Cerrone, Vanessa; Chang, Jinfan; Chang, Yun; Chatrabhuti, Auttakit; Chen, Chao; Chen, Guoming; Chen, Pingping; Chen, Shaomin; Chen, Xin; Chen, Yiming; Chen, Yixue; Chen, Yu; Chen, Zelin; Chen, Zhangming; Chen, Zhiyuan; Chen, Zikang; Cheng, Jie; Cheng, Yaping; Cheng, Yu Chin; Chepurnov, Alexander; Chetverikov, Alexey; Chiesa, Davide; Chimenti, Pietro; Chin, Yen-Ting; Chou, Po-Lin; Chu, Ziliang; Chukanov, Artem; Claverie, Gérard; Clementi, Catia; Clerbaux, Barbara; Molla, Marta Colomer; Lorenzo, Selma Conforti Di; Coppi, Alberto; Corti, Daniele; Csakli, Simon; Cui, Chenyang; Corso, Flavio Dal; Dalager, Olivia; Datta, Jaydeep; De La Taille, Christophe; Deng, Zhi; Deng, Ziyan; Ding, Xiaoyu; Ding, Xuefeng; Ding, Yayun; Dirgantara, Bayu; Dittrich, Carsten |
| Publisher Information: |
Springer Nature |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
Padua Research Archive (IRIS - Università degli Studi di Padova) |
| Description: |
We explore the decay of bound neutrons in the JUNO liquid scintillator detector into invisible particles (e.g., n→3ν or nn→2ν), which do not produce an observable signal. The invisible decay includes two decay modes: n→inv and nn→inv. The invisible decays of s-shell neutrons in 12C will leave a highly excited residual nucleus. Subsequently, some de-excitation modes of the excited residual nuclei can produce a time- and space-correlated triple coincidence signal in the JUNO detector. Based on a full Monte Carlo simulation informed with the latest available data, we estimate all backgrounds, including inverse beta decay events of the reactor antineutrino ν ̄e, natural radioactivity, cosmogenic isotopes and neutral current interactions of atmospheric neutrinos. Pulse shape discrimination and multivariate analysis techniques are employed to further suppress backgrounds. With two years of exposure, JUNO is expected to give an order of magnitude improvement compared to the current best limits. After 10 years of data taking, the JUNO expected sensitivities at a 90% confidence level are τ/B(n→inv)>5.0×1031years and τ/B(nn→inv)>1.4×1032years. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
ELETTRONICO |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:001410294700001; volume:85; issue:1; journal:EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS; https://hdl.handle.net/11577/3562736 |
| DOI: |
10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13638-0 |
| Availability: |
https://hdl.handle.net/11577/3562736; https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13638-0 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; license:Creative commons ; license uri:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.B196F554 |
| Database: |
BASE |