what we are doing ...
Our group is conducting research in experimental neutrino physics. Neutrinos are amongst the most mysterious elementary particles. They were postulated by Wolfgang Pauli in 1930 but have puzzled particle and astrophysicists ever since. For the longest time neutrinos were thought to be massless. Recent disvoveries have shown that neutrinos have mass and can undergo oscillation -- a quantum mechanical process that allows them to change flavor on their voyage through time and space. Neutrinos carry no charge and may be their own antiparticles. Our group works on precisely measuring neutrino oscillation using neutrinos produced in nuclear power plants at the KamLAND and Daya Bay reactor antineutrino experiments in Japan and China. In addition, we are involved in efforts to determine the neutrino mas and understand the particle nature of neutrinos with the CUORE experiment at Gran Sasso, Italy.
news...
October 2007 - Samuele Sangiorgio has joined our group from Como, Italy. Welcome!
September 2007 - Ho Ling Li wins a CEU award to attend the DNP meeting and present her summer research. Congratulations!
June 2007 - Wei Wang has joined our group from Boston University. Welcome!
May 2007 - Dan Zou wins a Hilldale fellowship for a research proposal on CUORE. Congratulations!
November 2006 - "Catching Neutrinos in China", Symmetry Oct/Nov 06
November 2006 - "Reactor experiments seek missing neutrino mixing angle", Physics Today Nov 06
June 2006 "China-US to launch joint neutrino experiment ", Peoples Daily June 06