Hecho con Indico
v3.2.5
Neutrinos are crucial elementary particles that deepen our understanding of the universe as well as the sources that generate them. As the most intense human-made source of neutrinos ever built, nuclear reactors have been used to study these elusive particles since their discovery in 1956. In this talk, I will give an overview of the opportunities offered by two next-generation reactor neutrino projects. The JUNO experiment, currently under construction in China, is taking the field to the next level in terms of scale and complexity, featuring a 20 kton liquid scintillator neutrino target and an energy resolution of 3% at 1 MeV. On the other hand, the CLOUD detector, based on the LiquidO technology and to be constructed 30 m from the reactor cores of the EDF Chooz nuclear power plant in France, supposes a novel approach for neutrino detection with tantalising prospects for reactor neutrinos and beyond. This experimental step will provide critical demonstration to support the SuperChooz future project, a new Europe-based flagship neutrino experiment to be located inside the Chooz-A nuclear reactor complex (up to 50,000 m3 of underground volume) after dismantling.