Reactor (ν)over-bare disappearance in the Double Chooz experiment

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作者
Abe, Y. [1 ]
Aberle, C. [28 ]
dos Anjos, J. C. [12 ]
Barriere, J. C. [22 ]
Bergevin, M. [16 ]
Bernstein, A. [23 ]
Bezerra, T. J. C. [35 ]
Bezrukhov, L. [21 ]
Blucher, E. [13 ]
Bowden, N. S. [23 ]
Buck, C. [28 ]
Busenitz, J. [9 ]
Cabrera, A. [11 ]
Caden, E. [17 ]
Camilleri, L. [15 ]
Carr, R. [15 ]
Cerrada, M. [14 ]
Chang, P. -J. [24 ]
Chimenti, P. [4 ]
Classen, T. [16 ,23 ]
Collin, A. P. [22 ]
Conover, E. [13 ]
Conrad, J. M. [27 ]
Crespo-Anadon, J. I. [14 ]
Crum, K. [13 ]
Cucoanes, A. [22 ,32 ]
D'Agostino, M. V. [10 ]
Damon, E. [17 ]
Dawson, J. V. [7 ,11 ]
Dazeley, S. [23 ]
Dietrich, D. [3 ]
Djurcic, Z. [10 ]
Dracos, M. [31 ]
Durand, V. [11 ,22 ]
Ebert, J. [18 ]
Efremenko, Y. [34 ]
Elnimr, M. [32 ]
Etenko, A. [26 ]
Fallot, M. [32 ]
Fechner, M. [22 ]
von Feilitzsch, F. [33 ]
Felde, J. [16 ]
Franco, D. [11 ]
Franke, A. J. [15 ]
Franke, M. [33 ]
Furuta, H. [35 ]
Gama, R. [12 ]
Gil-Botella, I. [14 ]
Giot, L. [32 ]
Goeger-Neff, M. [33 ]
机构
[1] Tokyo Inst Technol, Dept Phys, Tokyo 1528551, Japan
[2] Tokyo Metropolitan Univ, Dept Phys, Tokyo 1920397, Japan
[3] Univ Tubingen, Kepler Ctr Astro & Particle Phys, D-72076 Tubingen, Germany
[4] Univ Fed Abc, Santo Andre, SP, Brazil
[5] Univ Estadual Campinas, UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil
[6] Virginia Tech, Ctr Neutrino Phys, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
[7] Lab Neutrino Champagne Ardenne, F-08600 Rancennes, France
[8] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[9] Univ Alabama, Dept Phys & Astron, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA
[10] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[11] Univ Paris Diderot, APC, CNRS IN2P3, CEA IRFU,Observ Paris, F-75205 Paris 13, France
[12] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, BR-22290180 Rio De Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
[13] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[14] CIEMAT, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[15] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[16] Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[17] Drexel Univ, Dept Phys, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[18] Univ Hamburg, Inst Expt Phys, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany
[19] Hiroshima Inst Technol, Hiroshima 7315193, Japan
[20] IIT, Dept Phys, Chicago, IL 60616 USA
[21] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, Moscow 117901, Russia
[22] IRFU, Commissariat Energie Atom & Energies Alternat, Ctr Saclay, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[23] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
[24] Kansas State Univ, Dept Phys, Manhattan, KS 66506 USA
[25] Kobe Univ, Dept Phys, Kobe, Hyogo 6578501, Japan
[26] NRC Kurchatov Inst, Moscow 123182, Russia
[27] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[28] Max Planck Inst Kernphys, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
[29] Niigata Univ, Dept Phys, Niigata 9502181, Japan
[30] Univ Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA
[31] Univ Strasbourg, IPHC, CNRS IN2P3, F-67037 Strasbourg, France
[32] Univ Nantes, SUBATECH, CNRS IN2P3, Ecole Mines Nantes, F-44307 Nantes, France
[33] Tech Univ Munich, Dept Phys, D-85747 Garching, Germany
[34] Univ Tennessee, Dept Phys & Astron, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA
[35] Tohoku Univ, Res Ctr Neutrino Sci, Sendai, Miyagi 9808578, Japan
[36] Tohoku Gakuin Univ, Sendai, Miyagi 9813193, Japan
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2012年 / 86卷 / 05期
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 俄罗斯基础研究基金会; 巴西圣保罗研究基金会; 日本学术振兴会;
关键词
NEUTRON FISSION-PRODUCTS; SPECTRA; PU-239;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.86.052008
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The Double Chooz experiment has observed 8249 candidate electron antineutrino events in 227.93 live days with 33.71 GW-ton-years (reactor power X detector mass X live time) exposure using a 10.3 m(3) fiducial volume detector located at 1050 m from the reactor cores of the Chooz nuclear power plant in France. The expectation in case of theta(13) = 0 is 8937 events. The deficit is interpreted as evidence of electron antineutrino disappearance. From a rate plus spectral shape analysis we find sin(2)2 theta(13) = 0.109 +/- 0.030(stat) +/- 0.025(syst). The data exclude the no-oscillation hypothesis at 99.8% CL (2.9 sigma).
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