The China Jinping Underground Laboratory, inaugurated in 2010, is an underground research facility with the deepest rock overburden and largest space by volume in the world. The first-generation science programs include dark matter searches conducted by the CDEX and PandaX experiments. These activities are complemented by measurements of ambient radioactivity and installation of low-background counting systems. Phase II of the facility is being constructed, and its potential research projects are being formulated. In this review, we discuss the history, key features, results, and status of this facility and its experimental programs, as well as their future evolution and plans.
@article{arxiv.1801.00587,
title = {The China Jinping Underground Laboratory and its Early Science},
author = {Jian-Ping Cheng and Ke-Jun Kang and Jian-Min Li and Jin Li and Yuan-Jing Li and Qian Yue and Zhi Zeng and Yun-Hua Chen and Shi-Yong Wu and Xiang-Dong Ji and Henry T. Wong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.00587},
year = {2018}
}