Neutrinos
Daya Bay
The Daya Bay neutrino experiment is an exciting new project that will
help us understand some of the fundamental properties of neutrinos and
their role in the universe. There are strong evidences that neutrino
oscillations have been observed in experiments studying solar neutrino,
atmospheric neutrino, and reactor anti-neutrino. The last neutrino
mixing angle, theta_13, has so far eluded experimental detection due to its
surprisingly small value. The Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment has
an ambitious goal to measure theta_13 (or constrain its value) with a
sensitivity at least an order of magnitude better than the current
experimental limit. The value of theta_13 has important implications
for the next generation neutrino-oscillation experiments.
