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Abstract:
A thorough introduction of the Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (TAO) experiment will be presented.
TAO is a short-baseline reactor neutrino experiment near one core of the Taishan nuclear power plant. A new type of low-temperature liquid scintillator detector with ton-level fiducial mass and almost 4π coverage of highly efficient Silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) will be deployed. The reactor neutrino spectrum can be measured with unprecedented energy resolution, to provide a reference for future reactor neutrino experiment like JUNO, and to serve as a benchmark measurement to test nuclear databases. The experiment is in R&D and prototyping, with the final construction scheduled at the end of 2022.
Biography:
The speaker is an associate research fellow at IHEP and co-leader of the TAO experiment. He got bachelor from Nanjing University in 2010 and PhD from Paris-Sud University (joint PhD program with NJU) in 2015, and worked as Postdoc in Siegen University and DESY for 3 and 2 years respectively. Before joining IHEP, his focus was on the ATLAS experiment and has made significant contribution to the HWW measurement and led the ttgamma measurement.