論文

査読有り
2016年1月

Measurement of θ13 in Double Chooz using neutron captures on hydrogen with novel background rejection techniques

Journal of High Energy Physics
  • Y. Abe e
  • ,
  • Double Chooz Collaboratio

2016
1
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1007/JHEP01(2016)163

The Double Chooz collaboration presents a measurement of the neutrino mixing<br />
angle $\theta_{13}$ using reactor $\overline{\nu}_{e}$ observed via the inverse<br />
beta decay reaction in which the neutron is captured on hydrogen. This<br />
measurement is based on 462.72 live days data, approximately twice as much data<br />
as in the previous such analysis, collected with a detector positioned at an<br />
average distance of 1050m from two reactor cores. Several novel techniques have<br />
been developed to achieve significant reductions of the backgrounds and<br />
systematic uncertainties. Accidental coincidences, the dominant background in<br />
this analysis, are suppressed by more than an order of magnitude with respect<br />
to our previous publication by a multi-variate analysis. These improvements<br />
demonstrate the capability of precise measurement of reactor<br />
$\overline{\nu}_{e}$ without gadolinium loading. Spectral distortions from the<br />
$\overline{\nu}_{e}$ reactor flux predictions previously reported with the<br />
neutron capture on gadolinium events are confirmed in the independent data<br />
sample presented here. A value of $\sin^{2}2\theta_{13} =<br />
0.095^{+0.038}_{-0.039}$(stat+syst) is obtained from a fit to the observed<br />
event rate as a function of the reactor power, a method insensitive to the<br />
energy spectrum shape. A simultaneous fit of the hydrogen capture events and of<br />
the gadolinium capture events yields a measurement of $\sin^{2}2\theta_{13} =<br />
0.088\pm0.033$(stat+syst).

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2016)163
arXiv
http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1510.08937
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000369294300001&DestApp=WOS_CPL
URL
http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.08937v1
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1007/JHEP01(2016)163
  • ISSN : 1029-8479
  • arXiv ID : arXiv:1510.08937
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000369294300001

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