Latest News from Double Chooz Reactor Neutrino Experiment
Masahiro Kuze, for Double Chooz Collaboration
TL;DR
This paper reports on the status and initial results of the Double Chooz reactor neutrino experiment, which aims to measure the neutrino oscillation angle θ13 by detecting neutrino disappearance.
Contribution
It provides the first performance plots and discusses the experimental sensitivity in light of recent T2K results indicating a non-zero θ13.
Findings
Data-taking has commenced with the far detector in 2011.
Initial performance plots from physics data are presented.
Prospects for measuring θ13 are discussed considering recent T2K findings.
Abstract
Double Chooz experiment will search for a disappearance of the reactor neutrinos from Chooz reactor cores in Ardenne, France, in order to detect the yet unknown neutrino oscillation angle \theta 13. The far detector was completed in 2010 and data-taking has started in spring 2011. Status of data-taking is presented and some performance plots from physics data are shown in this paper for the first time. Also the prospect of experimental sensitivity is presented, in light of recent indication from T2K for a non-zero \theta 13 value.
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