暗物质物理全国重点实验室(以下简称“实验室”)于202412月获批新建,是依托上海交通大学建设的国家级科研平台。实验室主任由中国科学院院士、李政道研究所所长张杰担任。实验室现有固定人员118,包括中国科学院院士2位、国家级人才65位。

实验室以提升国家对宇宙与物质的最深层次结构、规律及其应用的原始创新能力为使命,聚焦“暗物质的基本粒子属性及其与常规物质相互作用”这一核心科学问题,依托上海交通大学李政道研究所、物理与天文学院在暗物质和相关领域的研究基础与优势,围绕暗物质与原子的相互作用、暗物质与中微子的相互作用、暗物质与电磁场的相互作用以及暗物质的大尺度行为四个方向,开展理论与实验紧密结合的前沿研究。

实验室正着力推进位于四川锦屏2400米深地的PandaX暗物质与中微子探测装置、海南3500米深海的TRIDENT中微子望远镜(海铃计划)、张江大本营实验室天体物理实验平台、青海冷湖4200米海拔的JUST光谱望远镜等四大专用科学装置的建设与升级,致力于揭示暗物质的本质,力争成为引领全球暗物质研究创新发展的策源地,为提升我国基础研究总体水平和国际学术地位做出重要贡献。

 

The State Key Laboratory of Dark Matter Physics (hereinafter referred to as “the Laboratory”) was approved in December 2024. It is a national-level research platform hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The Laboratory is led by Academician Jie Zhang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), who also serves as Director of the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute. The Laboratory currently has 118 faculty members, including 2 CAS academicians and 65 national-level talents.

Committed to strengthening China’s capacity for original innovation, the Laboratory is dedicated to exploring the most fundamental structures and laws of the universe and matter, as well as their potential applications. The core scientific question it addresses is the fundamental particle nature of dark matter and its interactions with ordinary matter.

Taking the advantage of Tsung-Dao Lee Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Laboratory conducts frontier research through a close integration of theory and experiment across four major directions: interactions between dark matter and atoms, dark matter and neutrinos, dark matter and electromagnetic fields, and the large-scale behavior of dark matter.

Looking ahead, the Laboratory is actively advancing the construction of four major research infrastructures at extreme conditions: the PandaX Dark Matter and Neutrino Detector located 2,400 meters underground in Jinping, Sichuan; the TRopIcal DEep-sea Neutrino Telescope (TRIDENT) at a depth of 3,500 meters in the West Pacific Ocean; the Experimental Platform for Laboratory Astrophysics in Zhangjiang, Shanghai; and the JUST Spectroscopic Telescope at an altitude of 4,200 meters in Lenghu, Qinghai.

With these efforts, the Laboratory aims to unravel the nature of dark matter, build a world-leading innovation hub in this frontier field, and make significant contributions to the development of fundamental science and the enhancement of China’s global academic influence.