Research
The research team focuses on accelerator-free experimental particle physic topics such as neutrino physics, dark matter detection, and particle astrophysics, and associated detector/electronics/CMOS pixel sensor technologies. Actively participating in major international experiments including PandaX, SNO+, LHAASO, JUNO, and HERD, CEPC,STCF the team has achieved several world-leading original breakthroughs including the dark matter search with PandaX, the first reactor neutrino detection in a water Cherenkov detector with SNO+, and the discovery of ultra-high energy gamma sources with LHAASO. Since 2021, the team has secured new research projects comprising: 1 NSFC Key Project, 2 sub-projects under the National Key R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and 1 major industry-academia collaboration, with cumulative approved funding exceeding 46 million yuan and received funding surpassing 4 million yuan.
Publications:
1. Initial measurement of reactor antineutrino oscillation at SNO+. The European Physics Journal C.
2. Evidence of Antineutrinos from Distant Reactors Using Pure Water at SNO+. Physical Review Letters.
3. Measurement of neutrino-induced neutral-current coherent π0 production in the NOvA near detector. Physical Review D.
4. First measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters using neutrinos and antineutrinos by NOvA. Physical Review Letters.
5. A multi-functional front end readout electronics system for PET detector application. JINST.
6. A compact and highly integrated 128-channel FPGA-based readout electronics for nuclear imaging application. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A.
7. Constraints on Ultra Heavy Dark Matter Properties from Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with LHAASO Observations. Physical Review Letters.
8. Effect of radiation on the attenuation length of clear fiber. Journal of Instrumentation.
9. Search for Cosmic-Ray Boosted Sub-MeV Dark-Matter–Electron Scattering in PandaX-4T. Physics Review Letters.
10. Dark Matter Search Results from 1.54 Tonne·Year Exposure of PandaX-4T. Physical Review Letters,
11. Exploring Lorentz Invariance Violation from Ultrahigh-Energy γ Rays Observed by LHAASO. Physical Review Letters.
12. Performance test and qualification of the photomultiplier tube for the whole production of LHAASO-ED. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A.
13. Measurement of attenuation length of the muon content in extensive air showers from 0.3 to 30 PeV with LHAASO. Physical Review D.
14. Constraints on Heavy Decaying Dark Matter from 570 Days of LHAASO Observations. Physical Review Letters.
15. First Indication of Solar B 8 Neutrinos through Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering in PandaX-4T. Physical Review Letters.
16. Measurement of solar pp neutrino flux using electron recoil data from PandaX-4T commissioning run. Chinese Physics C.
17. Characterization of a CMOS pixel sensor for charged particle tracking, Journal of Instrumentation.
18. The TaichuPix1: a monolithic active pixel sensor with fast in-pixel readout electronics for the CEPC vertex detector. Journal of Instrumentation
19. Searching for Two-Neutrino and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay of Xe 134 with the PandaX-4T Experiment. Physical Review Letters.
20. Detecting neutrinos from supernova bursts in PandaX-4T. Chinese Physics C.
21. A Configurable Ultra-Low Noise Current Source for Transition-Edge Sensor Characterization. JINST
Contact Person:Anqing Wang Email: anqing.wang@sdu.edu.cn