news The US-China neutrino hunt that opened a path to discovery Holly Chik Some of the equipment from the Daya Bay site will be moved to Jiangmen where a new detector is being built. Photo: IHEP Scientists will comb through nearly a decade's worth of data from an award-winning international research project in southern China to analyse an elusive subatomic particle that could be the key to understanding the origins of the universe. The data came from the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment in Shenzhen, a collaboration between China and the United States that went on to win the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2016.