21–24 Sept 2026
The Guildhall, York
Europe/London timezone

Introduction of CJPL and its low background facilities

21 Sept 2026, 11:20
20m
The Guildhall (The Guildhall, York)

The Guildhall

The Guildhall, York

The Courtyard, Guildhall, Coney St, York YO1 9QN United Kingdom
Presentation Radiogenic backgrounds Underground Labs

Speaker

Wenhan Dai (Tsinghua University)

Description

China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL) is one of the deepest (2400 rock overburden) and largest (>300,000 m$^3$) underground laboratory worldwide. This talk will introduce the latest statues of CJPL with focus on the low background facilities: the large liquid nitrogen shielding, large pure water shielding, combined shielding facilities and the ARGUS multi-detector $\gamma$-spectrometers. Also, the latest scientific activities in CJPL, including dark matter searches, neutrinoless double beta decay searches, nuclear astrophysics experiment, super conducting quantum experiment, will be introduced.

Author

Wenhan Dai (Tsinghua University)

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