• Solar, supernova, atmospheric and geo neutrino studies using JUNO detector

    分类: 物理学 >> 普通物理:统计和量子力学,量子信息等 提交时间: 2017-11-10

    摘要: Aside from its primary purpose of shedding light on the mass hierarchy (MH) using reactor antineutrinos,the JUNO experiment in Jiangmen (China) will also contribute to study neutrinos from non-reactor sources. In this poster we review JUNO’s goals in the realms of supernova, atmospheric,solar and geo-neutrinos; present the related experimental issues and provide the current estimates of its potential. For a typical galactic SN at a distance of 10 kpc, JUNO will record about 5000 events from inverse beta decay, 2000 events from elastic neutrino-proton scattering, 300 events from neutrino-electron scattering, and the charged current and neutral current interactions on the 12C nuclei. For atmospheric neutrinos, JUNO should be able to detect ne and nm charged current events. Optimistically, a determination of the MH could be achieved at the 1.8s (2.6s ) level after 10 (20) years of data taking. JUNO will also study solar neutrinos from 7Be and 8B, at low (≈1 MeV) and higher energies respectively, to improve our understanding of the matter effects on the oscillation mechanism and of the solar metallicity. Challenges come primarily from the radioactive and cosmogenic backgrounds: the expected performance for two benchmark scintillator radio-purities, are shown. The flux of geo-neutrinos gives us an insight on the Earth composition and formation. We will show how the increased sample size given by JUNO’s large sensitive mass of 20 KTon liquid scintillator will provide data to answer to several geological questions among which the U/Th ratio and mantle measurements

  • Light sterile neutrinos

    分类: 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间: 2016-09-14

    摘要: The theory and phenomenology of light sterile neutrinos at the eV mass scale is reviewed. The reactor, Gallium and LSND anomalies are briefly described and interpreted as indications of the existence of short-baseline oscillations which require the existence of light sterile neutrinos. The global fits of short-baseline oscillation data in 3+1 and 3+2 schemes are discussed, together with the implications for beta-decay and neutrinoless double-beta decay. The cosmological effects of light sterile neutrinos are briefly reviewed and the implications of existing cosmological data are discussed. The review concludes with a summary of future perspectives.

  • Temperature dependent defects evolution and hardening of tungsten induced by 200 keV He-ions

    分类: 物理学 >> 凝聚态:结构、力学和热性能 提交时间: 2017-03-26

    摘要: Tungsten has been selected as one of the potential candidate materials to cover some parts of the divertor in the future International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). The accumulation of defects and He induced by neutron irradiation and their impact on the mechanical properties of tungsten are of very importance. In this work, the high pure polycrystalline tungsten samples were implanted by 200 keV He+ with a fluence of 5016 He+/cm2 at temperatures of room temperature(RT), 200, 400 and 800oC. Vacancy-type defects were detected in all implanted samples by means of positron annihilation spectroscopy. Vacancy-type defects produced by He implantation exist in the damaged layer and are decorated by He atoms. With increasing implantation temperature, more He atoms fill in the vacancy-type defects and make for the formation of larger defects. The nano-hardness values were measured by nano-indentation technique. It is observed that implantation hardening occurred for all the implanted samples. With increasing implantation temperature from 200 to 800 oC, the change of the average hardness values which are lower than the value at RT has a tendency of enhancement for the shallower layer and degradation for the deeper layer. The hardness variations are discussed to be the pinning effects of the defects with different density or size.