de Kerret, H, Abrahão, T, Almazan, H, dos Anjos, J C, Appel, S, Barriere, J C, Bekman, I, Bezerra, T J C, Bezrukov, L, Blucher, E, Brugière, T, Buck, C, Busenitz, J, Cabrera, A, Cerrada, M and others, (2020) Double Chooz θ <inf>13</inf> measurement via total neutron capture detection. Nature Physics, 16 (5). pp. 558-564. ISSN 1745-2473

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Abstract

Neutrinos were assumed to be massless particles until the discovery of the neutrino oscillation process. This phenomenon indicates that the neutrinos have non-zero masses and the mass eigenstates (ν1, ν2, ν3) are mixtures of their flavour eigenstates (νe, νμ, ντ). The oscillations between different flavour eigenstates are described by three mixing angles (θ12, θ23, θ13), two differences of the squared neutrino masses of the ν2/ν1 and ν3/ν1 pairs and a charge conjugation parity symmetry violating phase δCP. The Double Chooz experiment, located near the Chooz Electricité de France reactors, measures the oscillation parameter θ13 using reactor neutrinos. Here, the Double Chooz collaboration reports the measurement of the mixing angle θ13 with the new total neutron capture detection technique from the full data set, yielding sin2(2θ13) = 0.105 ± 0.014. This measurement exploits the multidetector configuration, the isoflux baseline and data recorded when the reactors were switched off. In addition to the neutrino mixing angle measurement, Double Chooz provides a precise measurement of the reactor neutrino flux, given by the mean cross-section per fission 〈σf〉 = (5.71 ± 0.06) × 10−43 cm2 per fission, and reports an empirical model of the distortion in the reactor neutrino spectrum.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
SWORD Depositor:	Mx Elements Account
Depositing User:	Mx Elements Account
Date Deposited:	15 Nov 2021 14:25
Last Modified:	19 Nov 2021 10:30
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/102883

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