At the heart of the detector, located 700 meters underground in China, sits a roughly 35-meter-wide acrylic sphere. It will be filled with 20,000 metric tons of liquid scintillator, which emits ...
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) detector is a giant, transparent acrylic sphere that will hold a reservoir of water or solvents. The sphere is nearly 120 feet in diameter ...
The 35.4-meter acrylic sphere mentioned earlier is the crucial component of the core equipment of JUNO — the central detector, surrounded by a stainless steel structure and filled with 20,000 ...