IAS Fundamental Physics Seminar Series - Low Energy Neutrino and Dark Matter Physics with the TEXONO + CDEX Research Programs

Abstract
The studies of neutrino physics and searches of Dark Matter are subjects at the frontiers of fundamental physics research. Many of the experimental techniques and facilities are common or related. The speaker will present the broad landscape of both subjects, as well as the evolution and experimental efforts pursued by the Taiwan-based TEXONO and China-based CDEX programs, using novel germanium ionization detectors with sub-keV sensitivities [1]. The experiments are performed at the Kuo-Sheng Reactor Neutrino Laboratory [2] near Taipei, the China Jinping Underground Laboratory [3] in Sichuan, and the forthcoming Sanmen Reactor Neutrino Laboratory in Zhejiang.

References
1. “Characterization and Performance of Germanium Detectors in Neutrino and Dark Matter Experiments”, A.K. Soma et al., TEXONO Collaboration, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 836, 67 (2016).
2. “Taiwan EXperiment On NeutrinO: History and Prospects”, Henry Tsz-King Wong, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A33, 1830014 (2018).
3. “The China Jinping Underground Laboratory and Its Early Science”, J.P. Cheng et al., Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci., Vol. 67, 231 (2017).