The JUNO (Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory) project was born in China, an international experiment carried out in collaboration with the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). After having supplied the first 7 centrifugal pumps in 2018, CDR Pompe is proud to be able to continue its collaboration with the National Institute of Nuclear Physics and the Institute of High Energy Physics (Ihep) in China: another 17 CDR centrifugal pumps will be supplied and used to operate a gigantic underground liquid scintillator neutrino detector, whose construction began in 2015 and will start operating in 2021. The project, which is international and involves the collaboration of universities and research institutions from 16 different countries, will use the same technology as the Borexino experiment at the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratories. To intercept neutrinos, twenty thousand tons of scintillator liquid will be used, channeled into a sphere with a diameter of forty meters. Around it, twenty thousand photomultipliers with a diameter of 50 ncm will measure the interaction between neutrinos and liquid.
JUNO Project: CDR Centrifugal Pumps for Neutrino Studies in China