Abstract
The recent discovery of neutrino oscillation – a neutrino travelling in space transforms from one type to another – has profound impacts on particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Oscillation Experiment aims to measure a key but yet unknown neutrino oscillation parameter, θ13, to an unprecedented precision of better than 3 degrees, which is critical to the design of future experimental tests of a possible explanation of why matter dominates anti-matter in the universe, a key condition for our existence. We will present an overview of neutrino physics and a progress report of the Daya Bay experiment, particularly on the data we have collected from the first pair of anti-neutrino detectors in one of the sites close to the reactors.
Coffee and tea will be served 20 minutes prior to the seminar.