Reactor Neutrinos: Portal to New Physics
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Amphitheatre Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
APC
Abstract
Neutrino physics, in particular neutrino oscillation, may help us to resolve many known and unknown problems in particle physics and cosmology. Progress in the last twenty years has been enormous, but more will come in the next twenty years. In this talk, I will introduce a little bit the history of reactor neutrinos, its key technology advancement, and then focus on the JUNO experiment: its ideas behind the design, complications and difficulties during the construction and initial performance results. I will report the latest physics results on the indication of the neutrino mass ordering, and future prospects including the upgrade plan for double-beta decays.
About the speaker
Yifang Wang is the former director of the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of Chinese academy of Sciences. He obtained his Ph. D. at the University of Florence in Italy, and subsequently worked at MIT and Stanford University.
At IHEP, Yifang Wang led the design, construction and science effort of the BESIII experiment at the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider for tau-charm physics. He initiated and led the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment which observed a new type of neutrino oscillation denoted by θ13. He led the design and construction of the JUNO neutrino experiment, and proposed the Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC) as a Higgs Factory.
He is a recipient of the Breakthrough Prize, Panofsky Prize, EPS-HEP prize, Nikkei Asia Prize, Pontecorvo Prize, Future Science Prize and the 1st grade National Natural Science Award of China. He is a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of the US, the American Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of UK and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a CNRS Fellow-ambassador during 2025-2027.