The hunt for theta13 at the Daya Bay nuclear power plant

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The Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment is located at the Daya Bay nuclear power plant in Shenzhen, China.

• The experiment deploys eight "identical" antineutrino detectors to measure antineutrino fluxes from six 2.9 GW_{th} reactor cores in three underground experimental halls at different distances.
• The target zone of the Daya Bay detector is filled with 20 t 0.1% Gd doped LAB liquid scintillator.
• The baseline uncorrelated detector uncertainty is ~0.38% using current experimental techniques.