The lab will be built 700 meters underground and put into operation in 2020, said Wang Yifang, director of the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the project's spokesman from the Chinese side.
It is designed to operate for at least 20 years and will be equipped with the world's most precise and biggest liquid scintillation detector for neutrino, Wang said.
It is about 53km away from the nuclear reactors in Yangjiang and Taishan cities, a perfect location for such experiments, he said.
Once completed, the Jiangmen lab will be the second Chinese neutrino project and it will help scientists determine the neutrino mass hierarchy, Wang said.
"It will help us to better understand the rules of the universe and the particle world," he said.
More than 320 scientists from 45 research institutes and universities around the world joined the project led by Chinese scientists.
By Ruchi Singh
reporter
Park Sae-jin
swatchsjp@ajunews.com
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