Published 2016 | Version v1
Journal article

Status and recent results of the double Chooz neutrino experiment

  • 1. III. Physikalisches Institut B, RWTH Aachen University (Germany)

Description

The Double Chooz experiment is a reactor neutrino disappearance experiment for the precision measurement of the mixing angle θ13, neutrino oscillation parameter. Located on the nuclear reactor site in Chooz, France, two identical liquid scintillator detectors with baselines of 1050 m and 400 m are installed. These are measuring the flux of the antineutrinos from two reactor cores utilizing the signature of the inverse beta decay (IBD). With the far detector operating since 2011 first indication of the non-zero value of the mixing angle θ13 was found, and later refined with utilization of the neutron captures on Hydrogen - additionally to the Gadolinium - in the IBD channel. With the commissioning of the near detector in early 2015 one year of data with both detectors are now available. In this talk the overview of the experiment is given and newest results are presented.

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft
Journal Issue
Darmstadt 2016 issue
Series
Also available as printed version: Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft v. 51(4)
Journal Page Range
[1 p.]
ISSN
0420-0195
CODEN
VDPEAZ

Conference

Title
DPG-Fruehjahrstagung 2016 (Spring meeting) with the division hadron and nuclei, and the working group accelerator physics
Original Conference Title
DPG-Fruehjahrstagung 2016 des Fachverbandes Hadronen und Kerne und dem Arbeitskreis Beschleunigerphysik
Dates
14-18 Mar 2016
Place
Darmstadt (Germany)

Optional Information

Notes
Session: HK 49.2 Do 14:30; No further information available
Collaborations
Double Chooz-Collaboration