Reactor electron antineutrino disappearance in the Double Chooz experiment

  • Abe, Y.
  • Aberle, C.
  • Anjos, J. C. Dos
  • Barriere, J. C.
  • Bergevin, M.
  • Bernstein, A.
  • Bezerra, T. J. C.
  • Bezrukhov, L.
  • Blucher, E.
  • Bowden, N. S.
  • Buck, C.
  • Busenitz, J.
  • Cabrera, A.
  • Caden, E.
  • Camilleri, L.
  • Carr, R.
  • Cerrada, M.
  • Chang, P. -J.
  • Chimenti, P.
  • Classen, T.
  • Collin, A. P.
  • Conover, E.
  • Conrad, J. M.
  • Crespo-Anadón, J. I.
  • Crum, K.
  • Cucoanes, A.
  • d'Agostino, M. V.
  • Damon, E.
  • Dawson, J.V.
  • Dazeley, S.
  • Dietrich, D.
  • Djurcic, Z.
  • Dracos, M.
  • Durand, V.
  • Ebert, J.
  • Efremenko, Y.
  • Elnimr, M.
  • Etenko, A.
  • Fallot, Muriel
  • Fechner, M.
  • von Feilitzsch, F.
  • Felde, J.
  • Franco, D.
  • Franke, A. J.
  • Franke, M.
  • Furuta, H.
  • Gama, R.
  • Gil-Botella, I.
  • Giot, Lydie
  • Goger-Neff, M.
  • Gonzalez, L. F. G.
  • Goodman, M. C.
  • Goon, J. Tm.
  • Greiner, D.
  • Haag, N.
  • Hagner, C.
  • Hara, T.
  • Hartmann, F. X.
  • Haser, J.
  • Hatzikoutelis, A.
  • Hayakawa, T.
  • Hofmann, M.
  • Horton-Smith, G. A.
  • Hourlier, A.
  • Ishitsuka, M.
  • Jochum, J.
  • Jollet, C.
  • Jones, C. L.
  • Kaether, F.
  • Kalousis, L. N.
  • Kamyshkov, Y.
  • Kaplan, D. M.
  • Kawasaki, T.
  • Keefer, G.
  • Kemp, E.
  • de Kerret, H.
  • Kibe, Y.
  • Konno, T.
  • Kryn, D.
  • Kuze, M.
  • Lachenmaier, T.
  • Lane, C. E.
  • Langbrandtner, C.
  • Lasserre, T.
  • Letourneau, A.
  • Lhuillier, D.
  • Lima Jr, H. P.
  • Lindner, M.
  • López-Castanõ, J. M.
  • Losecco, J. M.
  • Lubsandorzhiev, B. K.
  • Lucht, S.
  • Mckee, D.
  • Maeda, J.
  • Maesano, C. N.
  • Mariani, C.
  • Maricic, J.
  • Martino, J.
  • Matsubara, T.
  • Mention, G.
  • Meregaglia, A.
  • Miletic, T.
  • Milincic, R.
  • Miyata, H.
  • Mueller, Th. A.
  • Nagasaka, Y.
  • Nakajima, K.
  • Novella, P.
  • Obolensky, M.
  • Oberauer, L.
  • Onillon, A.
  • Osborn, A.
  • Ostrovskiy, I.
  • Palomares, C.
  • Pepe, I. M.
  • Perasso, S.
  • Perrin, P.
  • Pfahler, P.
  • Porta, Amanda
  • Potzel, W.
  • Reichenbacher, J.
  • Reinhold, B.
  • Remoto, A.
  • Rohling, M.
  • Roncin, R.
  • Roth, S.
  • Sakamoto, Y.
  • Santorelli, R.
  • Sato, F.
  • Schonert, S.
  • Schoppmann, S.
  • Schwetz, T.
  • Shaevitz, M. H.
  • Shimojima, S.
  • Shrestha, D.
  • Sida, J-L.
  • Sinev, V.
  • Skorokhvatov, M.
  • Smith, E.
  • Spitz, J.
  • Stahl, A.
  • Stancu, I.
  • Stokes, L. F. F.
  • Strait, M.
  • Stuken, A.
  • Suekane, F.
  • Sukhotin, S.
  • Sumiyoshi, T.
  • Sun, Y.
  • Svoboda, R.
  • Terao, K.
  • Tonazzo, A.
  • Toups, M.
  • Thi, H. H. Trinh
  • Valdiviesso, G.
  • Veyssiere, C.
  • Wagner, S.
  • Watanabe, H.
  • White, B.
  • Wiebusch, C.
  • Winslow, L.
  • Worcester, M.
  • Wurm, M.
  • Yermia, Frédéric
  • Zimmer, V.
Publication date
July 2012
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)

Abstract

The Double Chooz experiment has observed 8,249 candidate electron antineutrino events in 227.93 live days with 33.71 GW-ton-years (reactor power x detector mass x livetime) exposure using a 10.3 cubic meter fiducial volume detector located at 1050 m from the reactor cores of the Chooz nuclear power plant in France. The expectation in case of theta13 = 0 is 8,937 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 \pm 0.030(stat) \pm 0.025(syst). The data exclude the no-oscillation hypothesis at 99.9% CL (3.1{\sigma})

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