PRISMA+ Colloquium

Feb. 6, 2019 at 1 p.m. in Lorentz-Raum 05-127, Staudingerweg 7

Prof. Dr. Tobias Hurth
Institut für Physik, THEP
hurth@uni-mainz.de

The neutrino program of the Jinping Underground facility
Kai Zuber (TU Dresden)


A significant fraction of rare event experiments in astroparticle physics rely on the fact to be performed deep underground.
Especially neutrino studies and dark matter searches benefit from going to large depth. The newly built Jinping underground facility in China is nowadays the deepest facility and various experiments are running and planned. Among them is a new solar neutrino detector.
The seminar will discuss the opportunities for neutrino physics, especially the prospect of precise solar neutrino detection, which could be highlighted by a potential first observation of neutrinos from the hitherto not observed CNO fusion.
These fusion reactions will be discussed also in the context of a novel infrastructure in in Germany, namely the Felsenkeller underground accelerator in Dresden.
This will be a new user facility for nuclear astrophysics to determine the fusion reaction rates of stellar burning.
The status of the project will be presented.

In addition, in recent years the interest in geoneutrinos, the antineutrino detection from the radioactivity within the Earth, grew and the neutrino measurement at the Jinping facility can add important information about the heat budget of the Earth.