Status and recent results of the double Chooz neutrino experiment
Creators
- 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
Identifiers
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)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 49021377
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BETA DECAY; CAPTURE; CHOOZ-B1 REACTOR; CHOOZ-B2 REACTOR; CONFIGURATION MIXING; ELECTRON ANTINEUTRINOS; LIQUID SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; NEUTRINO DETECTION; NEUTRINO MIXING ANGLE; NEUTRINO OSCILLATION; REACTOR CORES
- Descriptors DEC
- ANTILEPTONS; ANTIMATTER; ANTINEUTRINOS; ANTIPARTICLES; DECAY; DETECTION; ELECTRON NEUTRINOS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; FERMIONS; INTERACTIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATTER; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MIXING ANGLE; NEUTRINOS; NUCLEAR DECAY; POWER REACTORS; PWR TYPE REACTORS; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTORS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTORS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS
Optional Information
- Notes
- Session: HK 49.2 Do 14:30; No further information available
- Collaborations
- Double Chooz-Collaboration