First Results from the JUNO Experiment

Abstract

Neutrinos are elusive particles with unique properties that offer key insights into the fundamental structure of matter and the cosmic sources that produce them. The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multipurpose neutrino detector in China that recently began data taking after more than a decade of design and construction. In this talk, the speaker will review the initial detector performance and present the first results from the experiment, based on about 60 days of data, which provide world-leading estimates of the solar oscillation parameters. He will also briefly outline the broader physics program enabled by JUNO and the additional measurements it aims to pursue.


About the Speaker

Prof. Juan Pedro OCHOA-RICOUX is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine.

He obtained his PhD in Experimental Neutrino Physics from Caltech in 2010, after which he became a Chamberlain Fellow at Berkeley Lab. In 2013, he joined the faculty of the Physics Department at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and in 2019 he joined the University of California, Irvine. He has worked on several major international particle physics experiments, including ATLAS, Daya Bay, DUNE, JUNO, and MINOS, and is a member of the team developing the LiquidO particle detection technology.


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