Annual Report 2015–16

u 朱明中教授（右一） 與學生在大亞灣實 驗基地內 Prof. Chu Ming- chung (1st right) and students inside one of the Daya Bay underground experimental halls Tracking the Behaviour of Electron Antineutrinos CUHK physicists’ roles in large-scale cutting-edge experimental projects once again captured the attention of local and international media. Prof. Chu Ming- chung, principal investigator in the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment, is leading a team that designs and builds subsystems for detector monitoring, background measurement and data acquisition of the Experiment. Their work has contributed to the most precise measurement and record of subatomic energy spectrum published up to this stage. Lifting the Veil on Gravitational Waves Young and promising, Prof. Tjonnie G.F. Li (photo below) is already a member, the first from Hong Kong, of a Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) project that detected and proved the existence of the elusive gravitational waves first hypothesized by Einstein. 追蹤反中微子的行為 中大物理學家在大規模尖端實驗的 實力，再次受到本地和國際傳媒注 目。大亞灣中微子實驗首席研究員 朱明中教授，現正率領研究團隊為 這項實驗設計和建立三個子系統， 以用於探測器監控、本底輻射測量 和獲取數據。他們的工作有助量度 出亞原子的能量分布，這項測量結 果和紀錄的精確度是前所未有的。 發現重力波 年輕有為的黎冠峰教授（右圖）是首 位參與鐳射干涉儀重力波觀測站研 究項目的香港學者，他參與的項目， 發現並證明重力波的存在。重力波 由愛因斯坦提出，但科學家過去一 直無法探測到其存在的證據。 30 香港中文大學年報 CUHK Annual Report 2015–2016