Double Chooz

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Double Chooz is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Chooz, France. Its goal is to measure or set a limit on θ₁₃, a neutrino oscillation parameter responsible for changing electron neutrinos into other neutrinos. The experiment uses reactors of the Chooz Nuclear Power Plant as a neutrino source. Double Chooz is a successor to the CHOOZ experiment; one of its detectors occupies the same site as its predecessor.

In November 2011, first results of the experiment were presented at the LowNu conference in Seoul, which hint at a non-zero value of the neutrino mixing angle θ₁₃^[1].

Bibliography

• M. Apollonio et al. (2003). "Search for neutrino oscillations on a long base-line at the CHOOZ nuclear power station". arXiv:hep-ex/0301017 [hep-ex]. 
• M. Goodman, T. Lasserre (2006). "Double Chooz: A Search for the Neutrino Mixing Angle θ₁₃". arXiv:hep-ex/0606025 [hep-ex]. 
• P. Huber et al. (2006). "From double Chooz to triple Chooz — neutrino physics at the Chooz reactor complex". Journal of High Energy Physics. http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/1126-6708/2006/05/072/jhep052006072.pdf. 

References

1. ^ Herve de Kerret, "First results from the Double Chooz experiment", talk at the LowNu conference, Seoul, November 2011, via: http://www.doublechooz.org/Status_and_News/status_and_news.php

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