Speaker
Henoch Wong
(UC Berkeley)
Description
The Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment has observed the disappearance of $\bar{\nu}_{e}$ from nuclear reactors at $\sim$kilometer baselines. Utilizing powerful nuclear reactors as antineutrino sources and tall mountains that provide ample shielding against cosmic-rays, we have performed a relative comparison of the $\bar{\nu}_{e}$ rate and spectrum with an array of eight identically-designed detectors positioned in near and far locations. As a result, we have achieved unprecedented precision in measuring the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ and the neutrino mass square difference $|\Delta m^{2}_{ee}|$ in the $\bar{\nu}_{e}$ disappearance channel. This poster describes our experimental setup and our detector design. It also presents our latest results on neutrino oscillations, the search for a light sterile neutrino, and the high-statistics measurement of the absolute reactor antineutrino flux and spectrum.
Author
Henoch Wong
(UC Berkeley)
