1. JUNO sensitivity to invisible decay modes of neutrons
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JUNO Collaboration, Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam, Kai Adamowicz, Shakeel Ahmad, Rizwan Ahmed, Sebastiano Aiello, Fengpeng An, Qi An, Giuseppe Andronico, Nikolay Anfimov, Vito Antonelli, Tatiana Antoshkina, João Pedro Athayde Marcondes de André, Didier Auguste, Weidong Bai, Nikita Balashov, Wander Baldini, Andrea Barresi, Davide Basilico, Eric Baussan, Marco Bellato, Marco Beretta, Antonio Bergnoli, Daniel Bick, Lukas Bieger, Svetlana Biktemerova, Thilo Birkenfeld, Iwan Blake, Simon Blyth, Anastasia Bolshakova, Mathieu Bongrand, Dominique Breton, Augusto Brigatti, Riccardo Brugnera, Riccardo Bruno, Antonio Budano, Jose Busto, Anatael Cabrera, Barbara Caccianiga, Hao Cai, Xiao Cai, Yanke Cai, Zhiyan Cai, Stéphane Callier, Steven Calvez, Antonio Cammi, Agustin Campeny, Chuanya Cao, Guofu Cao, Jun Cao, Rossella Caruso, Cédric Cerna, Vanessa Cerrone, Jinfan Chang, Yun Chang, Auttakit Chatrabhuti, Chao Chen, Guoming Chen, Pingping Chen, Shaomin Chen, Xin Chen, Yiming Chen, Yixue Chen, Yu Chen, Zelin Chen, Zhangming Chen, Zhiyuan Chen, Zikang Chen, Jie Cheng, Yaping Cheng, Yu Chin Cheng, Alexander Chepurnov, Alexey Chetverikov, Davide Chiesa, Pietro Chimenti, Yen-Ting Chin, Po-Lin Chou, Ziliang Chu, Artem Chukanov, Gérard Claverie, Catia Clementi, Barbara Clerbaux, Marta Colomer Molla, Selma Conforti Di Lorenzo, Alberto Coppi, Daniele Corti, Simon Csakli, Chenyang Cui, Flavio Dal Corso, Olivia Dalager, Jaydeep Datta, Christophe De La Taille, Zhi Deng, Ziyan Deng, Xiaoyu Ding, Xuefeng Ding, Yayun Ding, Bayu Dirgantara, Carsten Dittrich, Sergey Dmitrievsky, Tadeas Dohnal, Dmitry Dolzhikov, Georgy Donchenko, Jianmeng Dong, Evgeny Doroshkevich, Wei Dou, Marcos Dracos, Frédéric Druillole, Ran Du, Shuxian Du, Yujie Duan, Katherine Dugas, Stefano Dusini, Hongyue Duyang, Jessica Eck, Timo Enqvist, Andrea Fabbri, Ulrike Fahrendholz, Lei Fan, Jian Fang, Wenxing Fang, Dmitry Fedoseev, Li-Cheng Feng, Qichun Feng, Federico Ferraro, Amélie Fournier, Fritsch Fritsch, Haonan Gan, Feng Gao, Alberto Garfagnini, Arsenii Gavrikov, Marco Giammarchi, Nunzio Giudice, Maxim Gonchar, Guanghua Gong, Hui Gong, Yuri Gornushkin, Marco Grassi, Maxim Gromov, Vasily Gromov, Minghao Gu, Xiaofei Gu, Yu Gu, Mengyun Guan, Yuduo Guan, Nunzio Guardone, Rosa Maria Guizzetti, Cong Guo, Wanlei Guo, Caren Hagner, Hechong Han, Ran Han, Yang Han, Jinhong He, Miao He, Wei He, Xinhai He, Tobias Heinz, Patrick Hellmuth, Yuekun Heng, Rafael Herrera, YuenKeung Hor, Shaojing Hou, Yee Hsiung, Bei-Zhen Hu, Hang Hu, Jun Hu, Peng Hu, Shouyang Hu, Tao Hu, Yuxiang Hu, Zhuojun Hu, Guihong Huang, Hanxiong Huang, Jinhao Huang, Junting Huang, Kaixuan Huang, Shengheng Huang, Wenhao Huang, Xin Huang, Xingtao Huang, Yongbo Huang, Jiaqi Hui, Lei Huo, Wenju Huo, Cédric Huss, Safeer Hussain, Leonard Imbert, Ara Ioannisian, Roberto Isocrate, Arshak Jafar, Beatrice Jelmini, Ignacio Jeria, Xiaolu Ji, Huihui Jia, Junji Jia, Siyu Jian, Cailian Jiang, Di Jiang, Guangzheng Jiang, Wei Jiang, Xiaoshan Jiang, Xiaozhao Jiang, Yixuan Jiang, Xiaoping Jing, Cécile Jollet, Li Kang, Rebin Karaparabil, Narine Kazarian, Ali Khan, Amina Khatun, Khanchai Khosonthongkee, Denis Korablev, Konstantin Kouzakov, Alexey Krasnoperov, Sergey Kuleshov, Sindhujha Kumaran, Nikolay Kutovskiy, Loïc Labit, Tobias Lachenmaier, Haojing Lai, Cecilia Landini, Sébastien Leblanc, Frederic Lefevre, Ruiting Lei, Rupert Leitner, Jason Leung, 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 Li, An-An Liang, Hao Liang, Jiajun Liao, Yilin Liao, Yuzhong Liao, Ayut Limphirat, Guey-Lin Lin, Shengxin Lin, Tao Lin, Jiajie Ling, Xin Ling, Ivano Lippi, 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 Liu, Lorenzo Loi, Alexey Lokhov, Paolo Lombardi, Claudio Lombardo, Kai Loo, Chuan Lu, Haoqi Lu, Jingbin Lu, Junguang Lu, Meishu Lu, Peizhi Lu, Shuxiang Lu, Xianguo Lu, Bayarto Lubsandorzhiev, Sultim Lubsandorzhiev, Livia Ludhova, Arslan Lukanov, Fengjiao Luo, Guang Luo, Jianyi Luo, Shu Luo, Wuming Luo, Xiaojie Luo, Vladimir Lyashuk, Bangzheng Ma, Bing Ma, Qiumei Ma, Si Ma, Xiaoyan Ma, Xubo Ma, Jihane Maalmi, Jingyu Mai, Marco Malabarba, Yury Malyshkin, Roberto Carlos Mandujano, Fabio Mantovani, Xin Mao, Yajun Mao, Stefano M. 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Astrophysics ,QB460-466 ,Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity ,QC770-798 - Abstract
Abstract We explore the decay of bound neutrons in the JUNO liquid scintillator detector into invisible particles (e.g., $$n\rightarrow 3 \nu $$ n → 3 ν or $$nn \rightarrow 2 \nu $$ n n → 2 ν ), which do not produce an observable signal. The invisible decay includes two decay modes: $$ n \rightarrow { inv} $$ n → inv and $$ nn \rightarrow { inv} $$ n n → inv . The invisible decays of s-shell neutrons in $$^{12}\textrm{C}$$ 12 C 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 $${\bar{\nu }}_e$$ 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 $$\tau /B( n \rightarrow { inv} ) > 5.0 \times 10^{31} \, \textrm{years}$$ τ / B ( n → inv ) > 5.0 × 10 31 years and $$\tau /B( nn \rightarrow { inv} ) > 1.4 \times 10^{32} \, \textrm{years}$$ τ / B ( n n → inv ) > 1.4 × 10 32 years .
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- 2025
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