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The Daya Bay experiment was the first to report simultaneous measurements of reactor antineutrinos at multiple baselines leading to the discovery ofν e oscillations over km-baselines. Subsequent data has provided the world's most precise measurement of sin 2 2θ 13 and the effective mass splitting ∆m 2 ee . The experiment is located in Daya Bay, China where the cluster of six nuclear reactors is among the world's most prolific sources of electron antineutrinos. Multiple antineutrino detectors are deployed in three underground water pools at different distances from the reactor cores to search for deviations in the antineutrino rate and energy spectrum due to neutrino mixing. Instrumented with photomultiplier tubes, the water pools serve as shielding against natural radioactivity from the surrounding rock and provide efficient muon tagging. Arrays of resistive plate chambers over the top of each pool provide additional muon detection. The antineutrino detectors were specifically designed for measurements of the antineutrino flux with minimal systematic uncertainty. Relative detector efficiencies between the near and far detectors are known to better than 0.2%. With the unblinding of the final two detectors' baselines and target masses, a complete description and comparison of the eight antineutrino detectors can now be presented. This paper describes the Daya Bay detector systems, consisting of eight antineutrino detectors in three instrumented water pools in three underground halls, and their operation through the first year of eight detector data-taking.

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A half-cell superconducting rf electron gun is designed to provide 0.5 A, 2 MeV beam for the Brookhaven National Laboratory R&D Energy Recovery Linac. Total rf power of 1 MW must be delivered to beam to meet the beam current and energy specifications, resulting in very strong coupling. Two opposing fundamental power couplers (FPCs) are employed to minimize the transverse kick to beam traversing the structure and to halve the power through the coupler. A single-window coaxial coupler has been designed to meet the average power and rf coupling requirements. The coupler features a planar beryllia rf window for better handling high thermal stresses and a ''pringle''-shaped tip of the antenna for enhancing rf coupling. Two FPCs have been fabricated and tested in preparation for the gun cryomodule assembly. A room-temperature test stand was used for conditioning couplers in full reflection regime with variable phase of the reflecting wave. The couplers were tested up to 250 kW in pulse mode and 125 kW in cw mode at different settings of the reflecting wave phase to expose all rf surfaces along the couplers to high fields. Several multipacting barriers were encountered and successfully processed away. The rf power levels, at which multipacting was found, match well those found in computer simulations.

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