The China Jinping Underground Laboratory and Its Early Science

The China Jinping Underground Laboratory, inaugurated in 2010, is an underground research facility with the deepest rock overburden and largest space by volume in the world. The first-generation science programs include dark matter searches conducted by the CDEX and PandaX experiments. These activit...

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Published inAnnual review of nuclear and particle science Vol. 67; no. 1; pp. 231 - 251
Main Authors Cheng, Jian-Ping, Kang, Ke-Jun, Li, Jian-Min, Li, Jin, Li, Yuan-Jing, Yue, Qian, Zeng, Zhi, Chen, Yun-Hua, Wu, Shi-Yong, Ji, Xiang-Dong, Wong, Henry T
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Annual Reviews 12.10.2017
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dark matter searches
low-background instrumentation
neutrino physics
underground laboratory
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Summary:The China Jinping Underground Laboratory, inaugurated in 2010, is an underground research facility with the deepest rock overburden and largest space by volume in the world. The first-generation science programs include dark matter searches conducted by the CDEX and PandaX experiments. These activities are complemented by measurements of ambient radioactivity and the installation of low-background counting systems. Phase II of the facility is being constructed, and its potential research projects are being formulated. In this review, we discuss the history, key features, results, and status of this facility and its experimental programs, as well as their future evolution and plans.
ISSN:0163-8998
1545-4134
DOI:10.1146/annurev-nucl-102115-044842