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JUNO Sensitivity to Invisible Decay Modes of Neutrons
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JUNO Collaboration Abusleme, Angel Adam, Thomas Adamowicz, Kai Ahmad, Shakeel Ahmed, Rizwan Aiello, Sebastiano An, Fengpeng An, Qi Andronico, Giuseppe Anfimov, Nikolay Antonelli, Vito Antoshkina, Tatiana de André, João Pedro Athayde Marcondes Auguste, Didier Bai, Weidong Balashov, Nikita Baldini, Wander Barresi, Andrea Basilico, Davide Baussan, Eric Bellato, Marco Beretta, Marco Bergnoli, Antonio Bick, Daniel Bieger, Lukas Biktemerova, Svetlana Birkenfeld, Thilo Blake, Iwan Blyth, Simon Bolshakova, Anastasia Bongrand, Mathieu Breton, Dominique Brigatti, Augusto Brugnera, Riccardo Bruno, Riccardo Budano, Antonio Busto, Jose Cabrera, Anatael Caccianiga, Barbara Cai, Hao Cai, Xiao Cai, Yanke Cai, Zhiyan Callier, Stéphane Calvez, Steven Cammi, Antonio Campeny, Agustin Cao, Chuanya Cao, Guofu Cao, Jun Caruso, Rossella Cerna, Cédric Cerrone, Vanessa Chang, Jinfan Chang, Yun Chatrabhuti, Auttakit Chen, Chao Chen, Guoming Chen, Pingping Chen, Shaomin Chen, Xin Chen, Yiming Chen, Yixue Chen, Yu Chen, Zelin Chen, Zhangming Chen, Zhiyuan Chen, Zikang Cheng, Jie Cheng, Yaping Cheng, Yu Chin Chepurnov, Alexander Chetverikov, Alexey Chiesa, Davide Chimenti, Pietro Chin, Yen-Ting Chou, Po-Lin Chu, Ziliang Chukanov, Artem Claverie, Gérard Clementi, Catia Clerbaux, Barbara Molla, Marta Colomer Di Lorenzo, Selma Conforti Coppi, Alberto Corti, Daniele Csakli, Simon Cui, Chenyang Corso, Flavio Dal Dalager, Olivia Datta, Jaydeep De La Taille, Christophe Deng, Zhi Deng, Ziyan Ding, Xiaoyu Ding, Xuefeng Ding, Yayun Dirgantara, Bayu Dittrich, Carsten Dmitrievsky, Sergey Dohnal, Tadeas Dolzhikov, Dmitry Donchenko, Georgy Dong, Jianmeng Doroshkevich, Evgeny Dou, Wei Dracos, Marcos Druillole, Frédéric Du, Ran Du, Shuxian Duan, Yujie Dugas, Katherine Dusini, Stefano Duyang, Hongyue Eck, Jessica Enqvist, Timo Fabbri, Andrea Fahrendholz, Ulrike Fan, Lei Fang, Jian Fang, Wenxing Fedoseev, Dmitry Feng, Li-Cheng Feng, Qichun Ferraro, Federico Fournier, Amélie Fritsch, Fritsch Gan, Haonan Gao, Feng Garfagnini, Alberto Gavrikov, Arsenii Giammarchi, Marco Giudice, Nunzio Gonchar, Maxim Gong, Guanghua Gong, Hui Gornushkin, Yuri Grassi, Marco Gromov, Maxim Gromov, Vasily Gu, Minghao Gu, Xiaofei Gu, Yu Guan, Mengyun Guan, Yuduo Guardone, Nunzio Guizzetti, Rosa Maria Guo, Cong Guo, Wanlei Hagner, Caren Han, Hechong Han, Ran Han, Yang He, Jinhong He, Miao He, Wei He, Xinhai Heinz, Tobias Hellmuth, Patrick Heng, Yuekun Herrera, Rafael Hor, YuenKeung Hou, Shaojing Hsiung, Yee Hu, Bei-Zhen Hu, Hang Hu, Jun Hu, Peng Hu, Shouyang Hu, Tao Hu, Yuxiang Hu, Zhuojun Huang, Guihong Huang, Hanxiong Huang, Jinhao Huang, Junting Huang, Kaixuan Huang, Shengheng Huang, Wenhao Huang, Xin Huang, Xingtao Huang, Yongbo Hui, Jiaqi Huo, Lei Huo, Wenju Huss, Cédric Hussain, Safeer Imbert, Leonard Ioannisian, Ara Isocrate, Roberto Jafar, Arshak Jelmini, Beatrice Jeria, Ignacio Ji, Xiaolu Jia, Huihui Jia, Junji Jian, Siyu Jiang, Cailian Jiang, Di Jiang, Guangzheng Jiang, Wei Jiang, Xiaoshan Jiang, Xiaozhao Jiang, Yixuan Jing, Xiaoping Jollet, Cécile Kang, Li Karaparabil, Rebin Kazarian, Narine Khan, Ali Khatun, Amina Khosonthongkee, Khanchai Korablev, Denis Kouzakov, Konstantin Krasnoperov, Alexey Kuleshov, Sergey Kumaran, Sindhujha Kutovskiy, Nikolay Labit, Loïc Lachenmaier, Tobias Lai, Haojing Landini, Cecilia Leblanc, Sébastien Lefevre, Frederic Lei, Ruiting Leitner, Rupert Leung, Jason Li, 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 Liang, An-An Liang, Hao Liao, Jiajun Liao, Yilin Liao, Yuzhong Limphirat, Ayut Lin, Guey-Lin Lin, Shengxin Lin, Tao Ling, Jiajie Ling, Xin Lippi, Ivano Liu, 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 Loi, Lorenzo Lokhov, Alexey Lombardi, Paolo Lombardo, Claudio Loo, Kai Lu, Chuan Lu, Haoqi Lu, Jingbin Lu, Junguang Lu, Meishu Lu, Peizhi Lu, Shuxiang Lu, Xianguo Lubsandorzhiev, Bayarto Lubsandorzhiev, Sultim Ludhova, Livia Lukanov, Arslan Luo, Fengjiao Luo, Guang Luo, Jianyi Luo, Shu Luo, Wuming Luo, Xiaojie Lyashuk, Vladimir Ma, Bangzheng Ma, Bing Ma, Qiumei Ma, Si Ma, Xiaoyan Ma, Xubo Maalmi, Jihane Mai, Jingyu Malabarba, Marco Malyshkin, Yury Mandujano, Roberto Carlos Mantovani, Fabio Mao, Xin Mao, Yajun Mari, Stefano M. Marini, Filippo Martini, Agnese Mayer, Matthias Mayilyan, Davit Mednieks, Ints Meng, Yue Meraviglia, Anita Meregaglia, Anselmo Meroni, Emanuela Miramonti, Lino Mohan, Nikhil Montuschi, Michele Reveco, Cristobal Morales Nastasi, Massimiliano Naumov, Dmitry V. Naumova, Elena Navas-Nicolas, Diana Nemchenok, Igor Thi, Minh Thuan Nguyen Nikolaev, Alexey Ning, Feipeng Ning, Zhe Nunokawa, Hiroshi Oberauer, Lothar Ochoa-Ricoux, Juan Pedro Olshevskiy, Alexander Orestano, Domizia Ortica, Fausto Othegraven, Rainer Paoloni, Alessandro Parker, George Parmeggiano, Sergio Patsias, Achilleas Pei, Yatian Pelicci, Luca Peng, Anguo Peng, Haiping Peng, Yu Peng, Zhaoyuan Percalli, Elisa Perrin, Willy Perrot, Frédéric Petitjean, Pierre-Alexandre Petrucci, Fabrizio Pilarczyk, Oliver Rico, Luis Felipe Piñeres Popov, Artyom Poussot, Pascal Previtali, Ezio Qi, Fazhi Qi, Ming Qi, Xiaohui Qian, Sen Qian, Xiaohui Qian, Zhen Qiao, Hao Qin, Zhonghua Qiu, Shoukang Qu, Manhao Qu, Zhenning Ranucci, Gioacchino Re, Alessandra Rebii, Abdel Redchuk, Mariia Reina, Gioele Ren, Bin Ren, Jie Ren, Yuhan Ricci, Barbara Rientong, Komkrit Rifai, Mariam Roche, Mathieu Rodphai, Narongkiat Romani, Aldo Roskovec, Bedřich Ruan, Xichao Rybnikov, Arseniy Sadovsky, Andrey Saggese, Paolo Sandanayake, Deshan Sangka, Anut Sava, Giuseppe Sawangwit, Utane Schever, Michaela Schwab, Cédric Schweizer, Konstantin Selyunin, Alexandr Serafini, Andrea Settimo, Mariangela Shao, Junyu Sharov, Vladislav Shi, Hexi Shi, Jingyan Shi, Yanan Shutov, Vitaly Sidorenkov, Andrey Šimkovic, Fedor Singhal, Apeksha Sirignano, Chiara Siripak, Jaruchit Sisti, Monica Smirnov, Mikhail Smirnov, Oleg Sokolov, Sergey Songwadhana, Julanan Soonthornthum, Boonrucksar Sotnikov, Albert Sreethawong, Warintorn Stahl, Achim Stanco, Luca Stankevich, Konstantin Steiger, Hans Steinmann, Jochen Sterr, Tobias Stock, Matthias Raphael Strati, Virginia Strizh, Michail Studenikin, Alexander Su, Aoqi Su, Jun Sun, Guangbao Sun, Shifeng Sun, Xilei Sun, Yongjie Sun, Yongzhao Sun, Zhengyang Suwonjandee, Narumon Takenaka, Akira Tan, Xiaohan Tang, Jian Tang, Jingzhe Tang, Qiang Tang, Quan Tang, Xiao Hariharan, Vidhya Thara Tkachev, Igor Tmej, Tomas Torri, Marco Danilo Claudio Triossi, Andrea Trzaska, Wladyslaw Tung, Yu-Chen Tuve, Cristina Ushakov, Nikita Vedin, Vadim Venettacci, Carlo Verde, Giuseppe Vialkov, Maxim Viaud, Benoit Vollbrecht, Cornelius Moritz von Sturm, Katharina Vorobel, Vit Voronin, Dmitriy Votano, Lucia Walker, Pablo Wang, Caishen Wang, Chung-Hsiang Wang, En Wang, Guoli Wang, Hanwen Wang, Jian Wang, Jun Wang, Li Wang, Lu Wang, Meng Wang, Mingyuan Wang, Qianchuan Wang, Ruiguang Wang, Sibo Wang, Siguang Wang, Wei Wang, Wenshuai Wang, Xi Wang, Xiangyue Wang, Yangfu Wang, Yaoguang Wang, Yi Wang, Yifang Wang, Yuanqing Wang, Yuyi Wang, Zhe Wang, Zheng Wang, Zhimin Watcharangkool, Apimook Wei, Wei Wei, Wenlu Wei, Yadong Wei, Yuehuan Wen, Liangjian Weng, Jun Wiebusch, Christopher Wirth, Rosmarie Wu, Chengxin Wu, Diru Wu, Qun Wu, Yinhui Wu, Yiyang Wu, Zhi Wurm, Michael Wurtz, Jacques Wysotzki, Christian Xi, Yufei Xia, Dongmei Xian, Shishen Xiang, Ziqian Xiao, Fei Xiao, Xiang Xie, Xiaochuan Xie, Yijun Xie, Yuguang Xin, Zhao Xing, Zhizhong Xu, Benda Xu, Cheng Xu, Donglian Xu, Fanrong Xu, Hangkun Xu, Jiayang Xu, Jilei Xu, Jing Xu, Jinghuan Xu, Meihang Xu, Xunjie Xu, Yin Xu, Yu Yan, Baojun Yan, Qiyu Yan, Taylor Yan, Xiongbo Yan, Yupeng Yang, Changgen Yang, Chengfeng Yang, Fengfan Yang, Jie Yang, Lei Yang, Pengfei Yang, Xiaoyu Yang, Yifan Yang, Yixiang Yang, Zekun Yao, Haifeng Ye, Jiaxuan Ye, Mei Ye, Ziping Yermia, Frédéric You, Zhengyun Yu, Boxiang Yu, Chiye Yu, Chunxu Yu, Guojun Yu, Hongzhao Yu, Miao Yu, Xianghui Yu, Zeyuan Yu, Zezhong Yuan, Cenxi Yuan, Chengzhuo Yuan, Ying Yuan, Zhenxiong Yue, Baobiao Zafar, Noman Zamogilnyi, Kirill Zavadskyi, Vitalii Zeng, Fanrui Zeng, Shan Zeng, Tingxuan Zeng, Yuda Zhan, Liang Zhang, Aiqiang Zhang, Bin Zhang, Binting Zhang, Feiyang Zhang, Hangchang Zhang, Haosen Zhang, Honghao Zhang, Jialiang Zhang, Jiawen Zhang, Jie Zhang, Jingbo Zhang, Jinnan Zhang, Junwei Zhang, Lei Zhang, Peng Zhang, Ping Zhang, Qingmin Zhang, Shiqi Zhang, Shu Zhang, Shuihan Zhang, Siyuan Zhang, Tao Zhang, Xiaomei Zhang, Xin Zhang, Xuantong Zhang, Yibing Zhang, Yinhong Zhang, Yiyu Zhang, Yongpeng Zhang, Yu Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhang, Yumei Zhang, Zhenyu Zhang, Zhijian Zhao, Jie Zhao, Rong Zhao, Runze Zhao, Shujun Zhao, Tianhao Zheng, Hua Zheng, Yangheng Zhou, Jing Zhou, Li Zhou, Nan Zhou, Shun Zhou, Tong Zhou, Xiang Zhou, Xing Zhu, Jingsen Zhu, Kangfu Zhu, Kejun Zhu, Zhihang Zhuang, Bo Zhuang, Honglin Zong, Liang Zou, Jiaheng
Publication Year :
2024
Abstract
We explore the bound neutrons decay into invisible particles (e.g., $n\rightarrow 3 \nu$ or $nn \rightarrow 2 \nu$) in the JUNO liquid scintillator detector. The invisible decay includes two decay modes: $ n \rightarrow { inv} $ and $ nn \rightarrow { inv} $. The invisible decays of $s$-shell neutrons in $^{12}{\rm C}$ 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 $\bar{\nu}_e$, 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 $\tau/B( n \rightarrow { inv} ) > 5.0 \times 10^{31} \, {\rm yr}$ and $\tau/B( nn \rightarrow { inv} ) > 1.4 \times 10^{32} \, {\rm yr}$.<br />Comment: 28 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables
Details
Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2405.17792
Document Type :
Working Paper