Associate Professors
WANG Yingxin
Tenured Associate Professor

Doctor

Email: wangzhe-hep%tsinghua.edu.cn

Educational Background

2000.9-2005.7, Ph.D., Institute of High Energy Physics, Particle Physics and Nuclear Physics

1996.9-2000.7, B.S., Nankai University, Physics Department


Work Experience

2023.8-current, Associate Professor (Tenured), Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University

2011.11-2023.7, Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University

2007.9-2011.9, Research Associate, Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory

2005.9-2007.7, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University


Teaching work

Teach or co-teach the following courses:

"Data Analysis in Particle and Nuclear Physics Experiments"

"Introduction to High Energy Physics"

"Cosmic Ray Particle Detection and Physics Experiment"

"Engineering Applications and Physical Exploration"

"Primary Experiments in Engineering Physics (1)(2)"


Research Field

Experimental studies of neutrino physics, with its unique perspective, are becoming a new approach in exploring of the micro world and broad universe.

Massive neutrinos are new physics beyond the minimal Standard Model. Neutrinos change flavor and change properties as they propagate. Because neutrinos interact extremely weak with matter, they can escape from various star and pass through interstellar dust. The study of neutrino properties and the utilization of neutrinos in solar physics, supernova physics, and geophysics are the frontiers in the field of high-energy experimental physics.

I am currently engaged in the following experimental studies.

Reactor neutrino oscillations, Theta13 and DeltaM_ee, solar neutrino flux, matter effects of neutrino oscillations in the Sun, atmospheric and accelerator neutrino oscillations, neutrino mass hierarchy, lepton CP violation phase, and sterile neutrinos.

Use neutrinos as a probe to study solar models, solar metallicity problem, supernova burst mechanism, and Earth's heat distribution, and crustal models.

Neutrino interactions with other particles, and matter, and new detection methods, e.g., experimental study of neutrinos using the unique low background environment of Jinping, tagging the inverse-beta-decay of electron anti-neutrinos with neutron capture on hydrogen, and novel Cherenkov liquid scintillator detector.

Other interests in high energy physics include: rare K meson decays, decay properties of Jpsi, psi(2S), and chi(cJ) particles.


Research Situation
Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment and Jinping Neutrino Experiment.


Academic Achievements

[1] Ye Liang, Tong Xu, Jialiang Zhang, Shuo Li, Ming Qi, Zhe Wang, Optical property measurements of lithium chloride aqueous solution for a novel solar neutrino experiment, JINST 18 (2023) 07, P07039.

[2] Wentai Luo, Qian Liu, Yangheng Zheng, Zhe Wang and Shaomin Chen, Reconstruction algorithm for a novel Cherenkov scintillation detector, JINST 18, P02004 (2023).

[3] Xun-Jie Xu, Zhe Wang, Shaomin Chen, Solar neutrino physics, Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics 131 (2023) 104043.

[4] Daya Bay Collaboration, Precision measurement of reactor antineutrino oscillation at kilometer-scale baselines by Daya Bay, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130 (2023) 161802.

[5] Daya Bay Collaboration, Improved Measurement of the Evolution of the Reactor Antineutrino Flux and Spectrum at Daya Bay, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130 (2023) 211801.

[6] Wenhui Shao, Weiran Xu, Ye Liang, Wentai Luo, Tong Xu, Ming Qi, Jialiang Zhang, Benda Xu, Zhe Wang, Shaomin Chen, The Potential to Probe Solar Neutrino Physics with LiCl Water Solution, Eur. Phys. J. C 83 (2023) 799.

[7] Wei Dou, Benda Xu, Jianfeng Zhou, Zhe Wang, Shaomin Chen, Reconstruction of Point Events in Liquid-Scintillator Detectors Subjected to Total Reflection, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 1057 (2023) 168692.

[8] Yiyang Wu, Jinjing Li, Shaomin Chen, Wei Dou, Lei Guo, Ziyi Guo, Ghulam Hussain, Ye Liang, Qian Liu, Guang Luo, Wentai Luo, Ming Qi, Wenhui Shao, Jian Tang, Linyan Wan, Zhe Wang, Benda Xu, Tong Xu, Weiran Xu, Yuzi Yang, Lin Zhao, Aiqiang Zhang, Bin Zhang, Performance of the 1-ton Prototype Neutrino Detector at CJPL-I, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 1054 (2023) 168400.

[9] Zhe Wang; Shaomin Chen; Hunting potassium geoneutrinos with liquid scintillator Cherenkov neutrino detectors, Chinese Physics C, 2020, 44(3):0-033001.

[10] Ziyi Guo, Minfang Yeh, Rui Zhang, De-Wen Cao, Ming Qi, Zhe Wang, and Shaomin Chen, Slow liquid scintillator candidates for MeV-scale neutrino experiments, Astroparticle Physics, 109, 33 (2019).

[11] Daya Bay Collaboration, Improved measurement of the reactor antineutrino flux at Daya Bay, PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 100, 052004 (2019).

[12] John F. Beacom; Shaomin Chen; Jianping Cheng; Sayed N. Doustimotlagh; Yuanning Gao; Guanghua Gong; Hui Gong; Lei Guo; Ran Han; Hong-Jian He; Xingtao Huang; Jianmin Li; Jin Li; Mohan Li, Xueqian Li; Wei Liao; Guey-Lin Lin; Zuowei Liu; William McDonough; Ondrej Sramek; Jian Tang; Linyan Wan; Yuanqing Wang; Zhe Wang; Zongyi Wang; Hanyu Wei; Yufei Xi; Ye Xu; Xun-Jie Xu; Zhenwei Yang; Chunfa Yao; Minfang Yeh; Qian Yue; Liming Zhang; Yang Zhang; Zhihong Zhao; Yangheng Zheng; Xiang Zhou; Xianglei Zhu; Kai Zuber; Physics prospects of the Jinping neutrino experiment, Chinese Physics C, 41(2): 023002 (2017).

[13] Daya Bay Collaboration, New measurement of theta13 via neutron capture on hydrogen at Daya Bay, PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 93, 072011 (2016).

[14] Lin Zhao, Wentai Luo, Lars Bathe Peters, Shaomin Chen, Mourad Chouaki, Wei Dou, Lei Guo, Ziyi Guo, Ghulam Hussain, Jinjing Li, Ye Liang, Qian Liu, Guang Luo, Ming Qi, Wenhui Shao, Jian Tang, Linyan Wan, Zhe Wang, Yiyang Wu, Benda Xu, Tong Xu, Weiran Xu, Yuzi Yang, Minfang Yeh, Bin Zhang, Measurement of Muon-induced Neutron Production at China Jinping Underground Laboratory, Chin.Phys. C 46 (2022) 2, 025001.

[15] Bin Zhang, Zhe Wang, Shaomin Chen, Mountain muon tomography using a liquid scintillator detector, Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(21), 10975.

[16] Dacheng Xu, Benda Xu, Erjin Bao, Yiyang Wu, Aiqiang Zhang, Yuyi Wang, Geliang Zhang, Yu Xu, Ziyi Guo, Jihui Pei, Hanyang Mao, Jiashuo Liu, Zhe Wang, Shaomin Chen, Towards the ultimate PMT waveform analysis for neutrino and dark matter experiments, Journal of Instrumentation, Volume 17, Issue 6, P06040, June 2022

[17] Zi-yi Guo; Lars Bathe-Peters; Shao-min Chen; Mourad Chouaki; Wei Dou; Lei Guo; Ghulam Hussain; Jin-jing Li; Qian Liu; Guang Luo; Wen-tai Luo; Ming Qi; Wen-hui Shao; Jian Tang; Lin-yan Wan; Zhe Wang; Ben-da Xu; Tong Xu; Wei-ran Xu; Yu-zi Yang; Minfang Yeh; Lin Zhao; Muon Flux Measurement at China Jinping Underground Laboratory, Chinese Physics C, 2021, 45(2): 025001.

[18] Daya Bay Collaboration, Minos+ Collaboration; Improved Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Mixing from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, MINOS+, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments, Physical Review Letters, 2020, 125(7): 071801.

[19] Smirnov, M., V; Hu, Zh J.; Ling, J. J.; Novikov, Yu N.; Wang, Z.; Yang, G.; Sterile neutrino oscillometry with Jinping, European Physical Journal C, 2020, 80(7): 0-609.

[20] Zhe Wang; Neutrino Oscillation Parameter Measurements, ICHEP2020, Prague, Czech Republic, 2020-7-28.

[21 ]Daya Bay Collaboration; Search for Electron-Antineutrinos Associated with Gravitational-Wave Events GW150914, GW151012, GW151226, GW170104, GW170608, GW170814, and GW170817 at Daya Bay, Chinese Physics C, 2020.

[22] Zhe Wang; Benda Xu; Shaomin Chen; Delayed coincidence in electron-neutrino capture on gallium for neutrino spectroscopy, Astroparticle Physics, 2020, 126(1): 0-102519.

[23] Daya Bay Collaboration; Extraction of the U-235 and Pu-239 Antineutrino Spectra at Daya Bay, Physical Review Letters, 2019, 123(11): 0-111801.

[24] Daya Bay Collaboration; A high precision calibration of the nonlinear energy response at Daya Bay, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A, 2019, 940: 230-242.

[25] (In Chinese) 王元清; 王综轶; 杜新喜; 陈少敏; 王喆; 张天雄; 衡月昆; 高能物理探测设备中结构新材料的应用技术研究 , 建筑钢结构进展, 2019, (01): 1-14.

[26] Daya Bay Collaboration; Seasonal variation of the underground cosmic muon flux observed at Daya Bay, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2018, 2018(1): 0-001.

[27] Daya Bay Collaboration; Cosmogenic neutron production at Daya Bay, PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 2018, 97(5): 0-052009.

[28] Ghulam Hussain; Zhi Zeng; Chunfa Yao; Mohan Li; Ziyi Guo; Lie Guo; Zhe Wang; Shaomin Chen; Assay of low-background stainless steel by smelting for the neutrino experiment at Jinping, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A, 2018, 881: 65-71.

[29] Yu Zhi; Ye Liang; Zhe Wang; Shaomin Chen; Wide field-of-view and high-efficiency light concentrator, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A, 2018, 885: 114-118.

[30] Logan Lebanowski; Linyan Wan; Xiangpan Ji; Zhe Wang; Shaomin Chen; An efficient energy response model for liquid scintillator detectors, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A, 2018, 890: 133-141.

[31] Daya Bay Collaboration; Improved measurement of the reactor antineutrino flux and spectrum at Daya Bay, Chinese Physics C, 2017, 41(1): 0-013002.

[32] Daya Bay Collaboration; Study of the wave packet treatment of neutrino oscillation at Daya Bay, European Physical Journal C, 2017, 77(9): 0-606.

[33] Daya Bay Collaboration; Evolution of the Reactor Antineutrino Flux and Spectrum at Daya Bay, Physical Review Letters, 2017, 118(25): 0-251801.

[34] Daya Bay Collaboration; Measurement of electron antineutrino oscillation based on 1230 days of operation of the Daya Bay experiment, PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 2017, 95(7): 0-072006.

[35] Linyan Wan; Ghulam Hussain; Zhe Wang; Shaomin Chen; Geoneutrinos at Jinping: Flux prediction and oscillation analysis, PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 2017, 95(5): 0-053001.

[36] Zongyi Wang; Yuanqing Wang; Zhe Wang; Shaomin Chen; Xinxi Du; Tianxiong Zhang; Ziyi Guo; Huanxin Yuan; Design and analysis of a 1-ton prototype of the Jinping Neutrino Experiment, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A, 2017, 855: 81-87.

[37] Hanyu Wei; Zhe Wang; Shaomin Chen; Discovery potential for supernova relic neutrinos with slow liquid scintillator detectors, Physics Letters B, 2017, 769: 255-261.

[38] Jia-Hua Cheng; Zhe Wang; Logan Lebanowski; Guey-Lin Lin; Shaomin Chen; Determination of the total absorption peak in an electromagnetic calorimeter, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A, 2016, 827: 165-170.

[39] Daya Bay Collaboration; Measurement of the Reactor Antineutrino Flux and Spectrum at Daya Bay, Physical Review Letters, 2016, 116(6): 0-061801.

[40] Daya Bay Collaboration; Improved Search for a Light Sterile Neutrino with the Full Configuration of the Daya Bay Experiment, Physical Review Letters, 2016, 117(15): 0-151802.

[41] JUNO Collaboration; Neutrino physics with JUNO, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 2016, 43(3): 0-030401.

[42] Hanyu Wei; Logan Lebanowski; Fei Li; Zhe Wang; Shaomin Chen; Design, characterization, and sensitivity of the supernova trigger system at Daya Bay, Astroparticle Physics, 2016, 75: 38-43.

[43] Daya Bay Collaboration; The detector system of the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A, 2016, 811: 133-161.

[44] Mohan Li; Ziyi Guo; Minfang Yeh; Zhe Wang; Shaomin Chen; Separation of scintillation and Cherenkov lights in linear alkyl benzene, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A, 2016, 830: 303-308.

[45] Daya Bay Collaboration; The muon system of the Daya Bay Reactor antineutrino experiment, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A, 2015, 773: 8-20.

[46] Wang Zhe; Latest progress from the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment, 14th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP), Italy, 2015-9-7.

[47] Daya Bay Collaboration; New Measurement of Antineutrino Oscillation with the Full Detector Configuration at Daya Bay, Physical Review Letters, 2015, 115(11): 0-111802.

[48] E949 Collaboration; Search for heavy neutrinos in K+ -> mu(+)nu(H) decays, Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2015, 91(5): 0-052001.

[49] Jing-yi Yu; Zhe Wang; Shaomin Chen; A precise calculation of delayed coincidence selection efficiency and accidental coincidence rate, Chinese Physics C, 2015, 39(5): 0-056201.

[50] Daya Bay Collaboration; Spectral Measurement of Electron Antineutrino Oscillation Amplitude and Frequency at Daya Bay, Physical Review Letters, 2014, 112(6): 0-061801.

[51] Daya Bay Collaboration; Search for a Light Sterile Neutrino at Daya Bay, Physical Review Letters, 2014, 113(14): 0-141802.

[52] Wang Zhe; Highlights from the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment, 2nd International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics, Greece, 2013-8-28 to 2013-9-5.

[53] Daya Bay Collaboration; Independent measurement of the neutrino mixing angle theta(13) via neutron capture on hydrogen at Daya Bay, PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 2014, 90(7): 0-071101.

[54] Daya Bay Collaboration; Improved measurement of electron antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay, Chinese Physics C, 2013, 37(1): 0-011001.

[55] Daya Bay Collaboration; Observation of Electron-Antineutrino Disappearance at Daya Bay, Physical Review Letters, 108(17): 0-171803 (2012).

[56] Daya Bay Collaboration; A side-by-side comparison of Daya Bay antineutrino detectors, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A, 2012, 685: 78-97.

[57] BES III Collaboration; Design and construction of the BESIII detector, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A, 2010, 614(3): 345-399.

[58] E949 Collaboration; Study of the decay K -> pi nu nu-bar in the momentum region 140<P_pi<199 MeV/c, Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2009, 79(9): 0-092004.

[59] E949 Collaboration; New Measurement of the K+->pi(+) nu nubar Branching Ratio, Physical Review Letters, 101(19): 0-191802 (2008).

[60] (In Chinese) 邓子艳; 曹国富; 付成栋; 何苗; 刘怀民; 冒亚军; 夏宇; 尤郑昀; 袁野; 汤睿; 刘英杰; 马秋梅; 马想; 王大勇; 毛泽普; 文硕平; 王喆; 李卫东; 张长春; 邱进发; 张学尧; 张晓梅; 张瑶; 郑直; 俞国威; 黄性涛; 蒋林立; 臧石磊; 面向对象的BESⅢ探测器模拟系统, 中国物理C, 2006, (05): 371-377.

[61] Chang-chun Zhang; Zhe Wang; Ye Yuan; Reconstruction of photon conversions and precise measurement of photon energy at BES II, Chinese Physics C, 2006, 30(5): 378-386.

[62] BES II Collaboration; Precise measurement of spin-averaged chi(cJ)(1P) mass using photon conversions in psi(2S)->gamma chi(cJ), PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 2005, 71(9): 0-092002.

[63] (In Chinese) 张晓梅; 马秋梅; 王喆; 王大勇; 尤郑云; 毛泽普; 邓子艳; 邱进发; 刘怀民; 李卫东; 张学尧; 冒亚军; 袁野; 黄性涛; 蒋林立; 臧石磊; 基于GAUDI框架的原始数据管理系统, 中国物理C, 2005, 29(12): 54-58.

[64] BES II Collaboration; First observations of psi(2S) and chi(cJ)(1P) decays to four-body final states h(+)h(-)K(S)(0)K(S)(0), Physics Letters B, 2005, 630(1-2): 21-30.

[65] BES II Collaboration; Improved measurement of the branching ratio of J/psi ->(KS0KL0), Physical Review D, Particles and Fields, 2004, 69(1): 0-012003.

[66] BES II Collaboration; Search for (K0SKS0) in J/psi and psi (2S) decays, Physics Letters B, 2004, 589(1-2): 7-13.

[67] Zhe Wang; Ye Yuan; Changchun Zhang; Study of Ks/0 reconstruction and lifetime measurement at BES II, High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics, 2003, 27(1): 0-1.

[68] Daya Bay Collaboration; Search for a time-varying electron antineutrino signal at Daya Bay, Physical Review D 98, 092013 (2018).


Part-time Academic Job

2016-current, Institution Board, Daya Bay Collaboration, Chair

2015-current, Analysis Coordination Committee, Daya Bay Collaboration, Member and Rotating Chair

2021-current, Particles (MDPI), Editorial Board member


Award honors

2023 Zhe Wang with the Daya Bay Collaboration; High Energy and Particle Physics Prize; European Physical Society.

2022 Zhe Wang, Jianping Ni, Tong Xu, Jiangping Xie, and Huiyou Chen, First Class, Selection of Excellent Scientific Research Instruments in 2022, China Instrument and Control Society.

2016 Zhe Wang with the Daya Bay Collaboration; Breakthrough Prize 2016, Breakthrough Prize Organization.

2014 Zhe Wang, Young Top-Notch Talent Award, Particle Physics Frontier Excellence Innovation Center, Chinese Science Academy.


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