The JUNO Collaboration Meeting held at SYSU

Source: School of Physics and Engineering, SYSU-IHEP Joint Institute of High Energy Physics
Written by: School of Physics and Engineering, SYSU-IHEP Joint Institute of High Energy Physics
Edited by: Wang Dongmei

On January 10-14, 2015, the JUNO Collaboration Meeting, sponsored by Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), and co-organized by the School of Physics and Engineering (SPE) and the SYSU-IHEP Joint Institute of High Energy Physics (SHEP) at SYSU, was held on South Campus of SYSU. More than 300 scientists from Austria, Armenia, Brazil, Chile, China, Czech, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, Russia and the US joined the meeting. Chinese collaborators consist of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangxi University, Wuhan University, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Nanjing University, Xiamen University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Chongqing University, East China University of Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), China Institute of Atomic Energy, and etc. Meanwhile, the industry partners such as HZC Photonics and North Night Vision Co., Ltd took part in the collaboration meeting. Prof. Baojun LI, Dean of SPE & SHEP, gave a speech to welcome all participants.

 

Group photo
 

During the four-day meeting, Prof. Yifang WANG, the spokesperson of JUNO Collaboration and Director of IHEP, introduced the recent progress of the project and put forward requirements for the next stage. Prof. Xiaonan LI talked about the progress and schedule of the on-site civil construction. All session conveners and collaborators reported the design of detector, results of preliminary study and future plans. In the meeting, we established the project management sector, divided the tasks and identified the corresponding representatives, set up the preliminary workload in each institution and the preliminary schedule of the whole experiment. Prof. Wei WANG from SYSU was selected as one of the three conveners in the PMT testing sector.

The meeting approved the application for membership of the JUNO Collaboration from Yerevan Physics Institute (Armenia), Chongqing University (China), Xiamen University (China), University Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and University of Maryland (USA). In addition, famous physics institutes and universities came to the JUNO Collaboration Meeting as observers, including Max-Planck-Institute for Physics (Germany), Pontifical Catholic University of  Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Institute of High Energy Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria), University of Jyvaskyla (Finland), and Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Chile). The meeting selected the official logo for the JUNO Collaboration and decided to have the next collaboration meeting at IHEP in China on July 13-17, 2015.

At the beginning of the meeting, the participants paid a one-day trip to Jinji Town in Kaiping, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province to witness the groundbreaking ceremony for the JUNO experiment.