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Prospects for geoneutrino detection with JUNO

本文展示了针对 JUNO 实验的更新后的灵敏度分析,证明其前所未有的数据收集能力将在十年内实现测量总地中微子通量以及分离铀-238 和钍-232 贡献方面的世界领先精度,从而为地球组成和热收支提供关键见解。

原作者: Thomas Adam, Shakeel Ahmad, Rizwan Ahmed, Fengpeng An, João Pedro Athayde Marcondes de André, Costas Andreopoulos, Giuseppe Andronico, Nikolay Anfimov, Vito Antonelli, Tatiana Antoshkina, Didier Augus
发布于 2026-10-09
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原作者: Thomas Adam, Shakeel Ahmad, Rizwan Ahmed, Fengpeng An, João Pedro Athayde Marcondes de André, Costas Andreopoulos, Giuseppe Andronico, Nikolay Anfimov, Vito Antonelli, Tatiana Antoshkina, Didier Auguste, Marcel Büchner, Weidong Bai, Nikita Balashov, Andrea Barresi, Davide Basilico, Eric Baussan, Marco Beretta, Antonio Bergnoli, Nikita Bessonov, Daniel Bick, Lukas Bieger, Svetlana Biktemerova, Thilo Birkenfeld, Simon Blyth, Manuel Boehles, Anastasia Bolshakova, Mathieu Bongrand, Matteo Borghesi, Dominique Breton, Augusto Brigatti, Riccardo Brugnera, Riccardo Bruno, Antonio Budano, Jose Busto, Anatael Cabrera, Barbara Caccianiga, Hao Cai, Xiao Cai, Stéphane Callier, Steven Calvez, Antonio Cammi, Guofu Cao, Jun Cao, Yaoqi Cao, Rossella Caruso, Cédric Cerna, Vanessa Cerrone, Jinfan Chang, Yun Chang, Tim Charisse, Auttakit Chatrabhuti, Chao Chen, Haotian Chen, Jiahui Chen, Jian Chen, Jing Chen, Junyou Chen, Pingping Chen, Shaomin Chen, Shiqiang Chen, Yixue Chen, Yu Chen, Ze Chen, Zhangming Chen, Zhiyuan Chen, Zhongchang Chen, Jie Cheng, Yaping Cheng, Yu Chin Cheng, Alexander Chepurnov, Alexey Chetverikov, Davide Chiesa, Pietro Chimenti, Po-Lin Chou, Ziliang Chu, Artem Chukanov, Gérard Claverie, Catia Clementi, Barbara Clerbaux, Claudio Coletta, Marta Colomer Molla, Chenyang Cui, Ziyan Deng, Xiaoyu Ding, Xuefeng Ding, Yayun Ding, Bayu Dirgantara, Sergey Dmitrievsky, Dmitry Dolzhikov, Chuanshi Dong, Haojie Dong, Jianmeng Dong, Evgeny Doroshkevich, Marcos Dracos, Frédéric Druillole, Ran Du, Shuxian Du, Katherine Dugas, Stefano Dusini, Hongyue Duyang, Jessica Eck, Andrea Fabbri, Ulrike Fahrendholz, Lei Fan, Liangqianjin Fan, Jian Fang, Wenxing Fang, Elia Stanescu Farilla, Dmitry Fedoseev, Li-Cheng Feng, Qichun Feng, Shaoting Feng, Daniela Fetzer, Marcellin Fotzé, Amélie Fournier, Aaron Freegard, Ying Fu, Haonan Gan, Feng Gao, Ruohan Gao, Alberto Garfagnini, Arsenii Gavrikov, Marco Giammarchi, Nunzio Giudice, Maxim Gonchar, Guanda Gong, Guanghua Gong, Yuri Gornushkin, Marco Grassi, Maxim Gromov, Vasily Gromov, Minhao Gu, Xiaofei Gu, Yu Gu, Mengyun Guan, Yuduo Guan, Nunzio Guardone, Rosa Maria Guizzetti, Cong Guo, Wanlei Guo, Caren Hagner, Hechong Han, Yang Han, Chuanhui Hao, Vidhya Thara Hariharan, Miao He, Wei He, Xinhai He, Ziou He, Tobias Heinz, Patrick Hellmuth, Yuekun Heng, YuenKeung Hor, Shaojing Hou, Fatima Houria, Yee Hsiung, Bei-Zhen Hu, Hang Hu, Jun Hu, Tao Hu, Yuxiang Hu, Guihong Huang, Jinhao Huang, Junlin Huang, Junting Huang, Kaixuan Huang, Shengheng Huang, Tao Huang, Xin Huang, Xingtao Huang, Yongbo Huang, Jiaqi Hui, Lei Huo, Cédric Huss, Safeer Hussain, Leonard Imbert, Ara Ioannisian, Adrienne Jacobi, Arshak Jafar, Beatrice Jelmini, Xiangpan Ji, Xiaolu Ji, Junji Jia, Cailian Jiang, Guangzheng Jiang, Junjie Jiang, Xiaoshan Jiang, Xiaozhao Jiang, Yijian Jiang, Yixuan Jiang, Xiaoping Jing, Cécile Jollet, Liam Jones, Li Kang, 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, Lorenzo Lastrucci, Sébastien Leblanc, Matthieu Lecocq, Frederic Lefevre, Ruiting Lei, Rupert Leitner, Petr Lenskii, Jason Leung, Demin Li, Fei Li, Gaosong Li, Jiajun Li, Meiou Li, Min Li, Nan Li, Ruhui Li, Rui Li, Shanfeng Li, Teng Li, Weidong Li, Xiaonan Li, Yi Li, Yichen Li, Yifan Li, Yingke Li, Yufeng Li, Zhaohan Li, Zhibing Li, Zhiwei Li, Zi-Ming Li, An-An Liang, Jiajun Liao, Minghua Liao, Yilin Liao, Ayut Limphirat, Bo-Chun Lin, Guey-Lin Lin, Shengxin Lin, Tao Lin, Xingyi Lin, Jiajie Ling, Xin Ling, Ivano Lippi, Caimei Liu, Fang Liu, Fengcheng Liu, Haidong Liu, Hongbang Liu, Hongjuan Liu, Jianglai Liu, Jiaxi Liu, Jinchang Liu, Kainan Liu, Min Liu, Qian Liu, Runxuan Liu, Shenghui Liu, Shulin Liu, Ximing Liu, Xiwen Liu, Xuewei Liu, Yankai Liu, Yiqi Liu, Zhipeng Liu, Zhuo Liu, Lorenzo Loi, Alexey Lokhov, Paolo Lombardi, Kai Loo, Selma Conforti Di Lorenzo, Chuan Lu, Haoqi Lu, Junguang Lu, Meishu 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, Wing Yan Ma, Xiaoyan Ma, Xubo Ma, Jihane Maalmi, Jingyu Mai, Marco Malabarba, Yury Malyshkin, Roberto Carlos Mandujano, Fabio Mantovani, Xin Mao, Stefano M. 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在地球表面深处,隐藏在行星的地核与地幔之中,燃烧着一场缓慢而无声的火。这并非传统意义上带有火焰和氧气的火,而是由铀、钍和钾等古老放射性元素自然衰变产生的热量。这些元素自地球形成以来便一直存在,随着数十亿年来它们的分解,释放出的能量维持着行星内部的熔融状态,并驱动着构造板块的运动。尽管科学家们长期以来一直试图测量这种热量的总量及其分布位置,但他们面临着一个重大障碍:地球对几乎所有事物都是不透明的。光无法穿透岩石,而地震波只能揭示部分真相。几十年来,窥探地球放射性核心的唯一方法,就是等待这些衰变产生的微小、幽灵般的粒子逃离地球并到达地表。

这些粒子被称为地中微子(geoneutrinos)。它们几乎没有质量,不带电荷,且与物质的相互作用极其微弱,以至于每秒钟都有数万亿个这样的粒子穿过你的身体,却从未触碰到任何一个原子。由于它们可以不受阻挡地直接从地核穿出,因此携带了关于我们行星成分和热收支的直接信息。然而,探测它们是一项巨大的挑战。它们是如此难以捉摸,以至于即使是最灵敏的仪器也难以在众多的其他信号中捕捉到寥寥数个。地球内部由这些放射性元素产生多少热量,仍然是地球科学中尚未解决的重大谜团之一,不同的模型预测了截然不同的内部热量值,这进而改变了我们对地球如何形成以及如何演化的理解。

一项由江门地下中微子实验(JUNO)开展的新研究,为解决这一问题提供了变革性的视角。JUNO位于中国南部的一个深层地下实验室中,是一个装满了2万吨特殊液体的巨型探测器,当有粒子经过时,这些液体会发出光芒。这项研究背后的研究人员利用关于探测器性能和周围环境的最前沿知识,更新了他们对JUNO在全面投入运行后所能观测到的现象的预测。他们的工作表明,JUNO在不到一年的时间内收集到的地中微子样本,将相当于过去几十年里全球所有其他实验收集到的总和。这种数据量的飞跃有望将地中微子科学从一个粗略估计的领域转变为一个高精度测量的领域。

该研究的主要目标是精确确定JUNO测量这些粒子总流量的能力,更重要的是,观察它是否能够区分产生这些粒子的不同类型放射性元素。地球的热量主要来自两个来源:铀和钍。虽然它们经常共同出现,但具有不同的化学行为和衰变速率。了解它们之间的确切比例对于地质学家至关重要,因为这有助于他们理解地球在数十亿年前是如何分层为地核、地幔和地壳的。研究人员模拟了探测器的性能,持续时间为十年,并考虑到了JUNO紧邻数座大型核电站这一事实。这些电站也会发射中微子,产生显著的背景噪声,探测器必须对其进行过滤。尽管面临这一挑战,研究表明,凭借卓越的规模和精度,JUNO将能够将地球自然衰变的微弱信号从强烈的反应堆信号中分离出来。

结果表明,在运行的前几年内,JUNO测量地中微子总信号的精度将与现有的最佳实验相媲美。经过十年的运行,其精度预计将提高到约8%,这是一个此前从未实现的水平。这将使科学家能够以以往无法想象的信心来测试各种地球组成模型。研究进一步揭示,JUNO将能够以空前的细节区分铀和钍的贡献。虽然测量总信号是第一步,但区分这两种元素才是解锁地球形成历史的关键。研究人员发现,经过十年的运行,JUNO可以实现约22%的钍/铀比值的测量精度,从而为有关行星早期化学组成的理论提供直接检验。

论文中讨论的最具雄心的目标或许是尝试专门探测来自地球地幔(即地壳与地核之间的厚岩石层)的地中微子。这非常困难,因为探测器正下方的地壳信号要强得多,并且自带不确定性。研究表明,探测地幔信号是可能的,但极具挑战性。如果地球地幔中含有大量的放射性元素,只要科学家能够通过完善对局部地壳的理解来减少不确定性,JUNO有望在六年内实现对这一深层信号的统计学显著探测。如果地幔含热量较低,探测目前仍将难以实现。这一区别至关重要,因为它将告诉我们地球内部是富含放射性燃料,还是相对贫乏,这个问题对行星的热演化史具有深远影响。

论文总结道,JUNO代表了地中微子科学的一个新时代。通过结合大规模统计数据与精细的分析技术,该实验将为地球放射性产热提供迄今为止最严格的约束。研究结果不仅将帮助地质学家建立更好的地球内部模型,还将为研究这些难以捉摸的粒子基本性质的中微子物理学家提供独特的交叉验证。随着探测器开始收集数据,它将推动该领域从推测转向测量,为驱动我们行星运转的放射性引擎提供一个清晰、直接的视角。以如此清晰度观测地球内部热收支的能力,将建立理解我们家园的新基准,架起微观物理学与宏观地质学之间的桥梁。

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