Overview

• The underground detector in Guangdong sits 700 meters deep with a 35.4-meter acrylic sphere at the center of a 44-meter-deep water pool.
• JUNO will record antineutrinos from the Taishan and Yangjiang nuclear plants more than 50 kilometers away using a baseline largely unaffected by Earth matter effects.
• Instrumentation includes about 20,000 large and 25,600 small photomultiplier tubes to deliver the energy resolution required for precision oscillation measurements.
• More than 700 scientists from 74 institutions in 17 countries contributed to a project approved in 2013 and under construction since 2015.
• The program spans reactor, solar, atmospheric and supernova neutrinos with searches for sterile neutrinos and proton decay, plus a potential future upgrade for neutrinoless double-beta decay.