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Yue Meng 

Title:  Assistant Professor
Email: mengyue@sjtu.edu.cn
Address: 614 Building No. 5, New Science Building
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Research Interests:

Experimental physics: dark matter detection, neutrino measurement and ultra-low radioactive background techniques

Biographical Sketch:

Education:
Ph.D. in Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, US, 2008.8-2014.8
• Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment
B.S. in Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, 2004.8-2008.7

Professional experience:
2014.10-2018.10, Postdoctoral Associate, University of Alabama, AL, US 
• LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter experiment
• Ultra-low background techniques design and development
2018.11 – present, Assistant Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
• PandaX-4T dark matter experiment
• Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO)
• Ultra-low radioactive background techniques R&D

Opportunities to join the group are available at undergrad, graduate and postdoc level. Please send me an email for more details.

Selected Publications: 

  1. A New Method for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Plastic Packaging Against Radon Penetration, arXiv:1903.02643
  2. Measurement of the Gamma Ray Background in the Davis Cavern at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, Davis, The LZ collaboration, accepted for publication by Astroparticle Physics on 9/27/2019, arXiv:1904.02112. 
  3. An Improved Evaluation of the Neutron Background in the PandaX-II Experiment, The PandaX-II collaboration, accepted by Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron, arXiv:1907.00545 
  4. Searching for Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay of 136Xe with PandaX-II Liquid Xenon Detector, The PandaX-II collaboration, arXiv:1906.11457
  5. GEANT4 models of HPGe detectors for radioassay, NIM-A 2019.04.085
  6. Constraining radon backgrounds in LZ, AIP Conference Proceedings 1921 (1), 050003
  7.  Projected WIMP sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter experiment, arXiv:1802.06039
  8. Identification of radiopure titanium for the LZ dark matter experiment and future rare event searches, Astroparticle Physics 96, 1-10 
  9. LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) technical design report, arXiv:1703.09144 (2017)
  10. The detector system of the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment, NIM-A Volume 811, 1 March 2016, Pages 133-161 
  11. Measurement of the reactor antineutrino flux and spectrum at Daya Bay, Physical Review Letters 116 (6), 061801 
  12. New measurement of antineutrino oscillation with the full detector configuration at Daya Bay, Physical review letters 115 (11), 111802 
  13. LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) conceptual design report, arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.02910
  14. The muon system of the Daya Bay Reactor antineutrino experiment, NIM-A Volume 773, 11 February 2015, Pages 8-20
  15. Independent measurement of the neutrino mixing angle θ 13 via neutron capture on hydrogen at Daya Bay, Physical Review D，90 (7), 071101
  16. Search for a light sterile neutrino at Daya Bay, Physical review letters 113 (14), 141802
  17. Spectral measurement of electron antineutrino oscillation amplitude and frequency at Daya Bay, Physical Review Letters 112 (6), 061801
  18. Improved measurement of electron antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay, Chinese Physics C 37 (1), 011001
  19. A side-by-side comparison of Daya Bay antineutrino detectors, NIM-A Volume 685, 1 September 2012, Pages 78-97 [17] Observation of electron-antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay, Physical Review Letters 108 (17), 171803