Wednesday 1 February 2017 

Speaker: J Pedro Ochoa Ricoux (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)


Title: "Reacter Neutrino Physics with the Daya Bay and JUNO Experiments”

Abstract: Despite the great progress achieved in the last decades, neutrinos remain among the least understood fundamental particles to have been experimentally observed. The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment consists of eight identical detectors placed underground at different baselines from three groups of nuclear reactors in China, a configuration that is ideally suited for studying the properties of these elusive particles. In this talk I will review the latest results released by the Daya Bay collaboration, including a precision measurement of the θ13 mixing angle and the effective mass splitting in the electron antineutrino disappearance channel with a dataset based on 1230 days of operation. I will also briefly describe the status and physics prospects of the JUNO experiment, a 20 kton liquid scintillator detector with unprecedented energy resolution that will study the reactor antineutrinos emitted from two nuclear power plants in the south of China.