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Description
Over the last two decades, several breakthroughs have been made in multi-messenger astronomy, such as the successful observations of astrophysical neutrinos and very-high-energy gamma rays. However, the origin of cosmic rays is still mystery. No neutrino source has been significantly identified due to the lack of statistics and uncovered field of view. The next generation of high-energy neutrino telescope is in high demand. The proposed NEutrino Observatory in the Nanhai (NEON), located in the South China Sea, would be complementary for the global neutrino detectors. In this talk, I will introduce the design and layout of the array with a volume of 10 km$^3$, and present the performance studies. With our analysis the project will achieve an angular resolution of 0.1$^\circ$ at 100 TeV. With 10 years of operation, its 5$\sigma$ sensitivity is estimated as $E^2\Phi \sim 2 \times 10^{-10}$ GeV cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ for a source spectrum index of -2.
