Current Status and Prospects of the JUNO Experiment

The Jianmeng Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a 20 kton underground liquid scintillator detector under construction in China. The scintillator will be located in a 35.4 m diameter acrylic sphere surrounded by about 18,000 20" photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) and 25,600 3" PMTs providing a photocoverage over $75\%$. This and other features will allow JUNO to reach an unprecedented energy resolution of ${3\%}$ at 1~MeV. JUNO will feature a rich physics portfolio with neutrinos from many sources: nuclear reactors, supernovae, cosmic-ray interactions in the atmosphere, the Sun, and the Earth. Among its primary physics goals is the determination of the neutrino mass ordering, which it will do to 3-4 $\sigma$ significance in 6 years of data taking. Furthermore, it will measure three neutrino oscillation parameters with an uncertainty under 1\%. This talk will provide a broad overview of the status and prospects of the experiment.