The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment is a China-based multinational particle physics project studying neutrinos. The multinational collaboration includes researchers from China, the United States, Taiwan, and the Czech Republic. The US side of the project is funded by the US Department of Energy's Office of High Energy Physics. The experiment studies neutrino oscillations 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 also 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 Underground Laboratory in Hong Kong. It measures the neutrons produced by cosmic muons which may affect the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment.
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 Academy of Sciences
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
Shanghai Jiao Tong 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
