中微子振荡是目前唯一超出粒子物理标准模型的新现象,它证明了中微子质量不为零,对粒子物理、天体物理与宇宙学均有非常重要的意义.在描述中微子振荡的6个参数中,目前仍有两个未知:交叉混合角θ13与CP相角δ.作者建议在大亚湾反应堆附近建设一个中微子实验站,测量混合角sin^2θ13,在90%的置信度下达到0.01的精度,较过去的实验提高近一个数量级.这将对中微子物理的未来发展提供方向性指导,特别是对理解宇宙中“反物质消失之谜”具有重要意义.
Neutrino oscillation is the only phenomenon currently known beyond the standard model of particle physics. It proves that the neutrino mass is not null, a conclusion extremely important to particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. Among the six parameters for describing neutrino oscillations, two are still unknown: the mixing angle θ13 and the CP phase δ. We propose to build an experiment near the Daya Bay nuclear power station to measure the mixing angle sin^22θ13 to a precision of 0.01 at 90% confidence level, an improvement of about one order of magnitude over past experiments. This will provide a guideline for the future development of neutrino physics, and in particular for the understanding of the absence of anti-matter in the universe.