2–6 Dec 2025
Biblioteca Salaborsa
Europe/Rome timezone
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Overview of the TAO photo-detector and recent progress

5 Dec 2025, 09:13
15m
Auditorium Enzo Biagi (Biblioteca Salaborsa)

Auditorium Enzo Biagi

Biblioteca Salaborsa

Biblioteca Salaborsa, Piazza del Nettuno, 3, 40121 Bologna BO
Talk Astroparticle and Neutrino Physics Plenary Session

Speaker

Hanwen Wang (Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP))

Description

The Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (TAO, also known as JUNO-TAO) is a satellite experiment of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO). Its central detector is equipped with 4024 customized silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) tiles, each featuring a dimension of 5cm * 5cm, covering nearly 10 m$^2$ of spherical surface area. Operated at -50 $^\circ$C with low-temperature liquid scintillator, the detector is designed to achieve unprecedented energy resolution of 2% at 1 MeV for precise measurements of the reactor neutrino energy spectrum. The installation of the TAO detector is completed and commissioning work is on-going, with data-taking expected to begin soon. I will give a talk of TAO experiment on behalf of the JUNO collaboration. This talk will present an overview of recent progress on the TAO detector, and results from the mass characterization of the SiPMs and performance of the photo-detector.

Speaker Confirmation Yes

Author

Hanwen Wang (Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP))

Presentation materials