Speaker
Description
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment was designed to measure
Theta13, the smallest mixing angle in the three-neutrino mixing framework, with
unprecedented precision. The experiment consists of eight functionally identical
detectors placed underground at different baselines from three pairs of
nuclear reactors in South China. Since Dec. 2011, the experiment has been
running stably for more than 5 years, and has collected the largest reactor
anti-neutrino sample to date. Daya Bay greatly improved the precision on Theta13
and made an independent measurement of the effective mass splitting in
the electron antineutrino disappearance channel. Daya Bay also performed
a number of other precise measurements, such as a high-statistics determination
of the absolute reactor antineutrino flux and spectrum evolution, as well as
a search for sterile neutrino mixing, among others. The most recent results
from Daya Bay are discussed in this talk, as well as the current status and
future prospects of the experiment.
