Exploring solar neutrino oscillation parameters with the liquid scintillator counter at Yemilab with a comparison to JUNO

Abstract

We investigate the sensitivities of the liquid scintillator counter (LSC) at Yemilab and JUNO to solar neutrino oscillation parameters, focusing on θ12 and Δm212. We compare the potential of JUNO with LSC at Yemilab utilizing both reactor and solar data in determining those parameters. We find that the solar neutrino data of LSC at Yemilab is highly sensitive to θ12 enabling its determination with a higher precision compared to reactor experiments. Our study also reveals that if Δm212 is larger, with a value close to the best-fit value of KamLAND, JUNO reactor data will have about two times better precision than the reactor LSC at Yemilab. On the other hand, if Δm212 is smaller and closer to the best-fit value of solar neutrino experiments, the precision of the reactor LSC at Yemilab will be better than JUNO. © 2024 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3.