Status of JUNO Taishan Antineutrino Observatory

Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (TAO) is a satellite experiment of JUNO. It consists of a ton-level liquid scintillator detector at around 30 meters from a reactor core of the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant. It detects reactor antineutrinos by inverse beta decay (IBD). Silicon photomultipliers which have ~95% coverage and ~50% photon detection efficiency are used to collect photoelectrons, resulting in the light yield is ~4500 photoelectrons per MeV. Dark noise of SiPM is suppressed by orders of magnitude by cooling the detector down to -50 degrees. The main goal of TAO is to get the precise energy spectrum of reactor antineutrinos with very high energy resolution ( This poster will present the latest status of TAO detector.