A giant experimental device, buried 700 meters underground in the mountain of Jinji Town, Kaiping, Jiangmen City, is designed to capture and measure the fundamental particles of the material world, namely the 'ghost particles' (neutrinos).
This is the neutrino detector built by Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory, which will be the world's largest liquid scintillator detector with the highest energy precision.
The enormous stainless steel spherical grid of the central detector serves as the backbone of the entire device, with a 35.4-meter-diameter organic glass sphere supported by 590 support rods inside the stainless steel shell.
Recently, the 23rd JUNO Collaboration meeting was held in Kaiping, with 316 researchers from 13 countries and regions participating.
Wang Yifang is the spokesperson for the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory, the director of the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. During the meeting, he provided an overview of the progress made at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory. Currently, 70% of the central detector installation has been completed, and it is expected to be fully operational for capturing 'ghost particles' by 2025.
Editor丨Nan, Nina, Huang Xi, James
