Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment

The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment is a China-based multinational particle physics project studying neutrinos. The experiment studies neutrino oscillation and is designed to measure the mixing angle θ₁₃ using antineutrinos produced by the reactors of the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant and the Ling Ao Nuclear Power Plant. Scientists are interested in whether neutrinos are CP violators.

It is situated at Daya Bay, approximately 52 kilometers north of Hong Kong and 45 kilometers east of Shenzhen.

There is an affiliated project in the Aberdeen Tunnel Laboratory in Hong Kong. It measures the neutrons produced by cosmic muon which may affect the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment.

Spokesperson of Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment:

Yifang Wang (Institute of High Energy Physics, China)

Kam-Biu Luk (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California at Berkeley)

Collaborators

Beijing Normal University

Brookhaven National Laboratory

California Institute of Technology

Charles University

Chengdu University of Technology

China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group

China Institute of Atomic Energy

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dongguan Institute of Technology

George Mason University

Illinois Institute of Technology

Institute of High Energy Physics

Iowa State University

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Kurchatov Institute

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California at Berkeley

Nanjing University

Nankai University

National Chiao-Tung University

National Taiwan University

National United University

Princeton University

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Shandong University

Shenzhen University

Sun Yat-Sen (Zhongshan) University

Tsinghua University

University of California at Los Angeles

University of Hong Kong

University of Houston

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Science and Technology of China

University of Wisconsin

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

External links

• Home Page
• Catching neutrinos in China from Symmetry magazine
• Daya Bay θ13 Reactor Neutrino Experiment & Aberdeen Cosmic Ray Muon-induced Neutron Experiment from Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong