Status and Prospects of the JUNO Experiment

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a 20 kton multi-purpose liquid scintillator detector being built in a dedicated underground laboratory in China and expected to start data taking in 2021. Its main physics goal is the determination of the neutrino mass ordering using electron anti-neutrinos from two nuclear power plants at a baseline of about 53 km. With an unprecedented energy resolution of 3% at 1 MeV, JUNO will be able to determine the mass ordering with a significance of 3-4 sigma within six years of running. In addition, JUNO will also perform other important measurements in neutrino physics and astrophysics, such as estimating the solar oscillation parameters and the atmospheric mass splitting down to an accuracy of 1% or better. <br> In this talk JUNO's physics potential will be described, the status of its construction will be reviewed and a small excursion into its rich R&D program will be given