Monday, August 20, 2012

1208.3628 (Erica Caden et al.)

Studying Neutrino Directionality with Double Chooz    [PDF]

Erica Caden, for the Double Chooz collaboration
The first results from Double Chooz with 100 days of data measured $\sin^2(2\theta_{13}) = 0.086 \pm 0.051$. Backgrounds contribute significantly to the systematic uncertainty budget. Using the incoming neutrino directionality we will attempt to further separate the inverse beta decay signal from backgrounds. The CHOOZ experiment completed a similar analysis and found that the neutrino source can be located to within a cone of half-aperture of 18 degrees at the 68% C.L. We study the possible improvement of this result by Double Chooz.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3628

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