Published November 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Recent status of the KamLAND experiment

Description

The KamLAND experiment is a very long baseline reactor ν-bare oscillation experiment. This experiment has sensitivity to the oscillation parameters Δm2 > 10-5 eV2 and sin2 2θ > 0.2, using reactor ν-bare which come typically from 170 km away. This sensitive region completely covers the currently most favored MSW-LMA solution for the solar neutrino deficit problem. After 5 years of detector construction, the data taking started successfully in Jan. 2002. The detector performance is sufficient to perform reactor ν-bare physics and we expect the first physics result will come out soon. In this paper, the KamLAND detector, its expected sensitivities, history, and recent progress since the time of the conference, are briefly described

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Identifiers

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S0920563202016948;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
Journal Volume
111
Journal Issue
1-3
Journal Page Range
p. 128-132
ISSN
0920-5632
CODEN
NPBSE7

Conference

Title
5. topical conference on frontiers in flavour physics (KEKCT5)
Dates
20-22 Nov 2001
Place
Tsukuba, Ibaraki (Japan)

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Copyright (c) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.