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1. Ortho-positronium observation in the Double Chooz Experiment

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Abe, Y., Anjos, J. C. dos, Barriere, J. C., Baussan, E., Bekman, I., Bergevin, M., Bezerra, T. J. C., Bezrukov, L., Blucher, E., Buck, C., Busenitz, J., Cabrera, A., Caden, E., Camilleri, L., Carr, R., Cerrada, M., Chang, P. -J., Chauveau, E., Chimenti, P., Collin, A. P., Conover, E., Conrad, J. M., Crespo-Anadon, J. I., Crum, K., Cucoanes, A. S., Damon, E., Dawson, J. V., Dhooghe, J., Dietrich, D., Djurcic, Z., Dracos, M., Elnimr, M., Etenko, A., Fallot, M., von Feilitzsch, F., Felde, J., Fernandes, S. M., Fischer, V., Franco, D., Franke, M., Furuta, H., Gil-Botella, I., Giot, L., Goger-Neff, M., Gonzalez, L. F. G., Goodenough, L., Goodman, M. C., Grant, C., Haag, N., Hara, T., Haser, J., Hofmann, M., Horton-Smith, G. A., Hourlier, A., Ishitsuka, M., Jochum, J., Jollet, C., Kaether, F., Kalousis, L. N., Kamyshkov, Y., Kaplan, D. M., Kawasaki, T., Kemp, E., de Kerret, H., Kryn, D., Kuze, M., Lachenmaier, T., Lane, C. E., Lasserre, T., Letourneau, A., Lhuillier, D., Lima Jr, H. P., Lindner, M., Lopez-Castano, J. M., LoSecco, J. M., Lubsandorzhiev, B., Lucht, S., Maeda, J., Mariani, C., Maricic, J., Martino, J., Matsubara, T., Mention, G., Meregaglia, A., Miletic, T., Milincic, R., Minotti, A., Nagasaka, Y., Nikitenko, Y., Novella, P., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Onillon, A., Osborn, A., Palomares, C., Pepe, I. M., Perasso, S., Pfahler, P., Porta, A., Pronost, G., Reichenbacher, J., Reinhold, B., Rohling, M., Roncin, R., Roth, S., Rybolt, B., Sakamoto, Y., Santorelli, R., Schilithz, A. C., Schonert, S., Schoppmann, S., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shimojima, S., Shrestha, D., Sibille, V., 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., Thi, H. H. Trinh, Valdiviesso, G., Vassilopoulos, N., Veyssiere, C., Vivier, M., Wagner, S., Walsh, N., Watanabe, H., Wiebusch, C., Winslow, L., Wurm, M., Yang, G., Yermia, F., and Zimmer, V.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The Double Chooz experiment measures the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ by detecting reactor $\bar{\nu}_e$ via inverse beta decay. The positron-neutron space and time coincidence allows for a sizable background rejection, nonetheless liquid scintillator detectors would profit from a positron/electron discrimination, if feasible in large detector, to suppress the remaining background. Standard particle identification, based on particle dependent time profile of photon emission in liquid scintillator, can not be used given the identical mass of the two particles. However, the positron annihilation is sometimes delayed by the ortho-positronium (o-Ps) metastable state formation, which induces a pulse shape distortion that could be used for positron identification. In this paper we report on the first observation of positronium formation in a large liquid scintillator detector based on pulse shape analysis of single events. The o-Ps formation fraction and its lifetime were measured, finding the values of 44$\%$ $\pm$ 12$\%$ (sys.) $\pm$ 5$\%$ (stat.) and $3.68$ns $\pm$ 0.17ns (sys.) $\pm$ 0.15ns (stat.) respectively, in agreement with the results obtained with a dedicated positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy setup., Comment: 17 pages, 5 figures

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2014
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2. Improved measurements of the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ with the Double Chooz detector

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Abe, Y., Anjos, J. C. dos, Barriere, J. C., Baussan, E., Bekman, I., Bergevin, M., Bezerra, T. J. C., Bezrukov, L., Blucher, E., Buck, C., Busenitz, J., Cabrera, A., Caden, E., Camilleri, L., Carr, R., Cerrada, M., Chang, P. -J., Chauveau, E., Chimenti, P., Collin, A. P., Conover, E., Conrad, J. M., Crespo-Anadón, J. I., Crum, K., Cucoanes, A. S., Damon, E., Dawson, J. V., Dhooghe, J., Dietrich, D., Djurcic, Z., Dracos, M., Elnimr, M., Etenko, A., Fallot, M., von Feilitzsch, F., Felde, J., Fernandes, S. M., Fischer, V., Franco, D., Franke, M., Furuta, H., Gil-Botella, I., Giot, L., Göger-Neff, M., Gonzalez, L. F. G., Goodenough, L., Goodman, M. C., Grant, C., Haag, N., Hara, T., Haser, J., Hofmann, M., Horton-Smith, G. A., Hourlier, A., Ishitsuka, M., Jochum, J., Jollet, C., Kaether, F., Kalousis, L. N., Kamyshkov, Y., Kaplan, D. M., Kawasaki, T., Kemp, E., de Kerret, H., Kryn, D., Kuze, M., Lachenmaier, T., Lane, C. E., Lasserre, T., Letourneau, A., Lhuillier, D., Lima Jr, H. P., Lindner, M., López-Castaño, J. M., LoSecco, J. M., Lubsandorzhiev, B., Lucht, S., Maeda, J., Mariani, C., Maricic, J., Martino, J., Matsubara, T., Mention, G., Meregaglia, A., Miletic, T., Milincic, R., Minotti, A., Nagasaka, Y., Nikitenko, Y., Novella, P., Oberauer, L., Obolensky, M., Onillon, A., Osborn, A., Palomares, C., Pepe, I. M., Perasso, S., Pfahler, P., Porta, A., Pronost, G., Reichenbacher, J., Reinhold, B., Röhling, M., Roncin, R., Roth, S., Rybolt, B., Sakamoto, Y., Santorelli, R., Schilithz, A. C., Schönert, S., Schoppmann, S., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shimojima, S., Shrestha, D., Sibille, V., Sinev, V., Skorokhvatov, M., Smith, E., Spitz, J., Stahl, A., Stancu, I., Stokes, L. F. F., Strait, M., Stüken, A., Suekane, F., Sukhotin, S., Sumiyoshi, T., Sun, Y., Svoboda, R., Terao, K., Tonazzo, A., Thi, H. H. Trinh, Valdiviesso, G., Vassilopoulos, N., Veyssiere, C., Vivier, M., Wagner, S., Walsh, N., Watanabe, H., Wiebusch, C., Winslow, L., Wurm, M., Yang, G., Yermia, F., and Zimmer, V.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

The Double Chooz experiment presents improved measurements of the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ using the data collected in 467.90 live days from a detector positioned at an average distance of 1050 m from two reactor cores at the Chooz nuclear power plant. Several novel techniques have been developed to achieve significant reductions of the backgrounds and systematic uncertainties with respect to previous publications, whereas the efficiency of the $\bar\nu_{e}$ signal has increased. The value of $\theta_{13}$ is measured to be $\sin^{2}2\theta_{13} = 0.090 ^{+0.032}_{-0.029}$ from a fit to the observed energy spectrum. Deviations from the reactor $\bar\nu_{e}$ prediction observed above a prompt signal energy of 4 MeV and possible explanations are also reported. A consistent value of $\theta_{13}$ is obtained from a fit to the observed rate as a function of the reactor power independently of the spectrum shape and background estimation, demonstrating the robustness of the $\theta_{13}$ measurement despite the observed distortion., Comment: 44 pages, 25 figures. Figures 21 and 22 have been replaced (statistical error bars for bins above 8 MeV have become smaller). No other changes in the results of the paper; an Erratum submitted to JHEP

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2014
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3. Precision Muon Reconstruction in Double Chooz

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Double Chooz collaboration, Abe, Y., Anjos, J. C. dos, Barriere, J. C., Baussan, E., Bekman, I., Bergevin, M., Bezerra, T. J. C., Bezrukov, L., Blucher, E., Buck, C., Busenitz, J., Cabrera, A., Caden, E., Camilleri, L., Carr, R., Cerrada, M., Chang, P. -J., Chauveau, E., Chimenti, P., Collin, A. P., Conover, E., Conrad, J. M., Crespo-Anadón, J. I., Crum, K., Cucoanes, A., Damon, E., Dawson, J. V., Dietrich, D., Djurcic, Z., Dracos, M., Elnimr, M., Etenko, A., Fallot, M., von Feilitzsch, F., Felde, J., Fernandes, S. M., Fischer, V., Franco, D., Franke, M., Furuta, H., Gil-Botella, I., Giot, L., Göger-Neff, M., Gonzalez, L. F. G., Goodenough, L., Goodman, M. C., Grant, C., Haag, N., Hara, T., Haser, J., Hofmann, M., Horton-Smith, G. A., Hourlier, A., Ishitsuka, M., Jochum, J., Jollet, C., Kaether, F., Kalousis, L. N., Kamyshkov, Y., Kaplan, D. M., Kawasaki, T., Kemp, E., de Kerret, H., Kryn, D., Kuze, M., Lachenmaier, T., Lane, C. E., Lasserre, T., Letourneau, A., Lhuillier, D., Lima Jr, H. P., Lindner, M., no, J. M. López-Casta, LoSecco, J. M., Lubsandorzhiev, B., Lucht, S., Maeda, J., Mariani, C., Maricic, J., Martino, J., Matsubara, T., Mention, G., Meregaglia, A., Miletic, T., Milincic, R., Minotti, A., Nagasaka, Y., Nikitenko, Y., Novella, P., Obolensky, M., Oberauer, L., Onillon, A., Osborn, A., Palomares, C., Pepe, I. M., Perasso, S., Pfahler, P., Porta, A., Pronost, G., Reichenbacher, J., Reinhold, B., Röhling, M., Roncin, R., Roth, S., Rybolt, B., Sakamoto, Y., Santorelli, R., Schilithz, A. C., Schönert, S., Schoppmann, S., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shimojima, S., Sibille, V., Sinev, V., Skorokhvatov, M., Smith, E., Spitz, J., Stahl, A., Stancu, I., Stokes, L. F. F., Strait, M., Stüken, A., Suekane, F., Sukhotin, S., Sumiyoshi, T., Sun, Y., Svoboda, R., Terao, K., Tonazzo, A., Thi, H. H. Trinh, Valdiviesso, G., Vassilopoulos, N., Veyssiere, C., Vivier, M., Wagner, S., Watanabe, H., Wiebusch, C., Winslow, L., Wurm, M., Yang, G., Yermia, F., and Zimmer, V.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We describe a muon track reconstruction algorithm for the reactor anti-neutrino experiment Double Chooz. The Double Chooz detector consists of two optically isolated volumes of liquid scintillator viewed by PMTs, and an Outer Veto above these made of crossed scintillator strips. Muons are reconstructed by their Outer Veto hit positions along with timing information from the other two detector volumes. All muons are fit under the hypothesis that they are through-going and ultrarelativistic. If the energy depositions suggest that the muon may have stopped, the reconstruction fits also for this hypothesis and chooses between the two via the relative goodness-of-fit. In the ideal case of a through-going muon intersecting the center of the detector, the resolution is ~40 mm in each transverse dimension. High quality muon reconstruction is an important tool for reducing the impact of the cosmogenic isotope background in Double Chooz., Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Nuclear Instrumentation and Methods A. Author list corrected

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2014
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4. Background-independent measurement of $\theta_{13}$ in Double Chooz

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Abe, Y., Anjos, J. C. dos, Barriere, J. C., Baussan, E., Bekman, I., Bergevin, M., Bezerra, T. J. C., Bezrukov, L., Blucher, E., Buck, C., Busenitz, J., Cabrera, A., Caden, E., Camilleri, L., Carr, R., Cerrada, M., Chang, P. -J., Chauveau, E., Chimenti, P., Collin, A. P., Conover, E., Conrad, J. M., Crespo-Anadón, J. I., Crum, K., Cucoanes, A., Damon, E., Dawson, J. V., Dietrich, D., Djurcic, Z., Dracos, M., Elnimr, M., Etenko, A., Fallot, M., von Feilitzsch, F., Felde, J., Fernandes, S. M., Fischer, V., Franco, D., Franke, M., Furuta, H., Gil-Botella, I., Giot, L., Göger-Neff, M., Gonzalez, L. F. G., Goodenough, L., Goodman, M. C., Grant, C., Haag, N., Hara, T., Haser, J., Hofmann, M., Horton-Smith, G. A., Hourlier, A., Ishitsuka, M., Jochum, J., Jollet, C., Kaether, F., Kalousis, L. N., Kamyshkov, Y., Kaplan, D. M., Kawasaki, T., Kemp, E., de Kerret, H., Konno, T., Kryn, D., Kuze, M., Lachenmaier, T., Lane, C. E., Lasserre, T., Letourneau, A., Lhuillier, D., Lima Jr, H. P., Lindner, M., López-Castaño, J. M., LoSecco, J. M., Lubsandorzhiev, B. K., Lucht, S., Maeda, J., Mariani, C., Maricic, J., Martino, J., Matsubara, T., Mention, G., Meregaglia, A., Miletic, T., Milincic, R., Minotti, A., Nagasaka, Y., Nakajima, K., Nikitenko, Y., Novella, P., Obolensky, M., Oberauer, L., Onillon, A., Osborn, A., Palomares, C., Pepe, I. M., Perasso, S., Pfahler, P., Porta, A., Pronost, G., Reichenbacher, J., Reinhold, B., Röhling, M., Roncin, R., Roth, S., Rybolt, B., Sakamoto, Y., Santorelli, R., Sato, F., Schilithz, A. C., Schönert, S., Schoppmann, S., Shaevitz, M. H., Sharankova, R., Shimojima, S., Sibille, V., Sinev, V., Skorokhvatov, M., Smith, E., Spitz, J., Stahl, A., Stancu, I., Stokes, L. F. F., Strait, M., Stüken, A., Suekane, F., Sukhotin, S., Sumiyoshi, T., Sun, Y., Svoboda, R., Terao, K., Tonazzo, A., Thi, H. H. Trinh, Valdiviesso, G., Vassilopoulos, N., Veyssiere, C., Vivier, M., Wagner, S., Watanabe, H., Wiebusch, C., Winslow, L., Wurm, M., Yang, G., Yermia, F., and Zimmer, V.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The oscillation results published by the Double Chooz collaboration in 2011 and 2012 rely on background models substantiated by reactor-on data. In this analysis, we present a background-model-independent measurement of the mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ by including 7.53 days of reactor-off data. A global fit of the observed neutrino rates for different reactor power conditions is performed, yielding a measurement of both $\theta_{13}$ and the total background rate. The results on the mixing angle are improved significantly by including the reactor-off data in the fit, as it provides a direct measurement of the total background rate. This reactor rate modulation analysis considers antineutrino candidates with neutron captures on both Gd and H, whose combination yields $\sin^2(2\theta_{13})=$ 0.102 $\pm$ 0.028(stat.) $\pm$ 0.033(syst.). The results presented in this study are fully consistent with the ones already published by Double Chooz, achieving a competitive precision. They provide, for the first time, a determination of $\theta_{13}$ that does not depend on a background model.

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2014
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5. First Measurement of \theta_13 from Delayed Neutron Capture on Hydrogen in the Double Chooz Experiment

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Double Chooz Collaboration, 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., Damon, E., Dawson, J. V., Dazeley, S., Dietrich, D., Djurcic, Z., Dracos, M., Durand, V., Ebert, J., Efremenko, Y., Elnimr, M., Erickson, A., Etenko, A., Fallot, M., Fechner, M., von Feilitzsch, F., Felde, J., Fernandes, S. M., Fischer, V., Franco, D., Franke, A. J., Franke, M., Furuta, H., Gama, R., Gil-Botella, I., Giot, L., Göger-Neff, M., Gonzalez, L. F. G., Goodenough, L., Goodman, M. C., Goon, J. TM., Greiner, D., Haag, N., Habib, S., 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., 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-Castaño, 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., Meyer, M., 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, A., Potzel, W., Pronost, G., Reichenbacher, J., Reinhold, B., Remoto, A., Röhling, M., Roncin, R., Roth, S., Rybolt, B., Sakamoto, Y., Santorelli, R., Sato, F., Schönert, 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., Stüken, 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, F., and Zimmer, V.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The Double Chooz experiment has determined the value of the neutrino oscillation parameter $\theta_{13}$ from an analysis of inverse beta decay interactions with neutron capture on hydrogen. This analysis uses a three times larger fiducial volume than the standard Double Chooz assessment, which is restricted to a region doped with gadolinium (Gd), yielding an exposure of 113.1 GW-ton-years. The data sample used in this analysis is distinct from that of the Gd analysis, and the systematic uncertainties are also largely independent, with some exceptions, such as the reactor neutrino flux prediction. A combined rate- and energy-dependent fit finds $\sin^2 2\theta_{13}=0.097\pm 0.034(stat.) \pm 0.034 (syst.)$, excluding the no-oscillation hypothesis at 2.0 \sigma. This result is consistent with previous measurements of $\sin^2 2\theta_{13}$., Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures; published version

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2013
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6. Direct Measurement of Backgrounds using Reactor-Off Data in Double Chooz

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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-Anadon, 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., Erickson, A., Etenko, A., Fallot, M., Fechner, M., von Feilitzsch, F., Felde, J., Fernandes, S. M., Fischer, V., Franco, D., Franke, A. J., Franke, M., Furuta, H., Gama, R., Gil-Botella, I., Giot, L., Göger-Neff, M., Gonzalez, L. F. G., Goodenough, L., Goodman, M. C., Goon, J. TM., Greiner, D., Haag, N., Habib, S., 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., Lopez-Castano, 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., Meyer, M., 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, A., Potzel, W., Pronost, G., Reichenbacher, J., Reinhold, B., Remoto, A., Röhling, M., Roncin, R., Roth, S., Rybolt, B., Sakamoto, Y., Santorelli, R., Sato, F., Schönert, 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., Stüken, 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, F., and Zimmer, V.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Double Chooz is unique among modern reactor-based neutrino experiments studying $\bar \nu_e$ disappearance in that data can be collected with all reactors off. In this paper, we present data from 7.53 days of reactor-off running. Applying the same selection criteria as used in the Double Chooz reactor-on oscillation analysis, a measured background rate of 1.0$\pm$0.4 events/day is obtained. The background model for accidentals, cosmogenic $\beta$-$n$-emitting isotopes, fast neutrons from cosmic muons, and stopped-$\mu$ decays used in the oscillation analysis is demonstrated to be correct within the uncertainties. Kinematic distributions of the events, which are dominantly cosmic-ray-produced correlated-background events, are provided. The background rates are scaled to the shielding depths of two other reactor-based oscillation experiments, Daya Bay and RENO., Comment: V2 has corrections to affiliations

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2012
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7. First Test of Lorentz Violation with a Reactor-based Antineutrino Experiment

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Double Chooz Collaboration, Abe, Y., Aberle, C., Anjos, J. C. dos, 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., Erickson, A., Fallot, M., Fechner, M., von Feilitzsch, F., Felde, J., Fischer, V., Franco, D., Franke, A. J., Franke, M., Furuta, H., Gama, R., Gil-Botella, I., Giot, L., Göger-Neff, M., Gonzalez, L. F. G., Goodman, M. C., Goon, J. TM., Greiner, D., Haag, N., Habib, S., Hagner, C., Hara, T., Hartmann, F. X., Haser, J., Hatzikoutelis, A., Hayakawa, T., Hofmann, M., Horton-Smith, G. A., Ishitsuka, M., Jochum, J., Jollet, C., Jones, C. L., Kaether, F., Kalousis, L. N., Kamyshkov, Y., Kaplan, D. M., Katori, T., Kawasaki, T., Keefer, G., Kemp, E., de Kerret, H., Konno, T., Kryn, D., Kuze, M., Lachenmaier, T., Lane, C. E., Lasserre, T., Letourneau, A., Lhuillier, D., Lima Jr, H. P., Lindner, M., López-Castaño, 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., Meyer, M., 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, A., Potzel, W., Pronost, G., Reichenbacher, J., Reinhold, B., Remoto, A., Röhling, M., Roncin, R., Roth, S., Rybolt, B., Sakamoto, Y., Santorelli, R., Sato, F., Schönert, S., Schoppmann, S., Schwetz, T., Shaevitz, M. H., Shrestha, D., Sida, J. -L., Sinev, V., Skorokhvatov, M., Smith, E., Spitz, J., Stahl, A., Stancu, I., Stokes, L. F. F., Strait, M., Stüken, A., Suekane, F., Sukhotin, S., Sumiyoshi, T., Sun, Y., 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., Yanovitch, E., Yermia, F., and Zimmer, V.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We present a search for Lorentz violation with 8249 candidate electron antineutrino events taken by the Double Chooz experiment in 227.9 live days of running. This analysis, featuring a search for a sidereal time dependence of the events, is the first test of Lorentz invariance using a reactor-based antineutrino source. No sidereal variation is present in the data and the disappearance results are consistent with sidereal time independent oscillations. Under the Standard-Model Extension (SME), we set the first limits on fourteen Lorentz violating coefficients associated with transitions between electron and tau flavor, and set two competitive limits associated with transitions between electron and muon flavor., Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures; (new version after referee's comments)

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2012
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8. Reactor electron antineutrino disappearance in the Double Chooz experiment

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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, M., Fechner, M., von Feilitzsch, F., Felde, J., Franco, D., Franke, A. J., Franke, M., Furuta, H., Gama, R., Gil-Botella, I., Giot, L., 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, A., 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, F., and Zimmer, V.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
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 99.8% CL (2.9{\sigma})., Comment: Modified for PRD referees

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2012
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9. Indication for the disappearance of reactor electron antineutrinos in the Double Chooz experiment

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Abe, Y., Aberle, C., Akiri, T., Anjos, J. C. dos, Ardellier, F., Barbosa, A. F., Baxter, A., Bergevin, M., Bernstein, A., Bezerra, T. J. C., Bezrukhov, L., Blucher, E., Bongrand, M., 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., Cormon, S., Crespo-Anadón, J. I., Cribier, M., Crum, K., Cucoanes, A., D'Agostino, M. V., Damon, E., Dawson, J. V., Dazeley, S., Dierckxsens, M., Dietrich, D., Djurcic, Z., Dracos, M., Durand, V., Efremenko, Y., Elnimr, M., Endo, Y., Etenko, A., Falk, E., Fallot, M., Fechner, M., von Feilitzsch, F., Felde, J., Fernandes, S. M., Franco, D., Franke, A. J., Franke, M., Furuta, H., Gama, R., Gil-Botella, I., Giot, L., Göger-Neff, M., Gonzalez, L. F. G., Goodman, M. C., Goon, J. TM., Greiner, D., Guillon, B., Haag, N., Hagner, C., Hara, T., Hartmann, F. X., Hartnell, J., Haruna, T., Haser, J., Hatzikoutelis, A., Hayakawa, T., Hofmann, M., Horton-Smith, G. A., Ishitsuka, M., Jochum, J., Jollet, C., Jones, C. L., Kaether, F., Kalousis, L., 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., Liu, Y., 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., Milzstajn, A., Miyata, H., Motta, D., Mueller, Th. A., Nagasaka, Y., Nakajima, K., Novella, P., Obolensky, M., Oberauer, L., Onillon, A., Osborn, A., Ostrovskiy, I., Palomares, C., Peeters, S. J. M., Pepe, I. M., Perasso, S., Perrin, P., Pfahler, P., Porta, A., Potzel, W., Queval, R., Reichenbacher, J., Reinhold, B., Remoto, A., Reyna, D., Röhling, M., Roth, S., Rubin, H. A., Sakamoto, Y., Santorelli, R., Sato, F., Schönert, S., Schoppmann, S., Schwan, U., Schwetz, T., Shaevitz, M. H., Shrestha, D., Sida, J-L., Sinev, V., Skorokhvatov, M., Smith, E., Spitz, J., Stahl, A., Stancu, I., Strait, M., Stüken, A., Suekane, F., Sukhotin, S., Sumiyoshi, T., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Svoboda, R., Tabata, H., Tamura, N., Terao, K., Tonazzo, A., Toups, M., Thi, H. H. Trinh, Veyssiere, C., Wagner, S., Watanabe, H., White, B., Wiebusch, C., Winslow, L., Worcester, M., Wurm, M., Yanovitch, E., Yermia, F., Zbiri, K., and Zimmer, V.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The Double Chooz Experiment presents an indication of reactor electron antineutrino disappearance consistent with neutrino oscillations. A ratio of 0.944 $\pm$ 0.016 (stat) $\pm$ 0.040 (syst) observed to predicted events was obtained in 101 days of running at the Chooz Nuclear Power Plant in France, with two 4.25 GW$_{th}$ reactors. The results were obtained from a single 10 m$^3$ fiducial volume detector located 1050 m from the two reactor cores. The reactor antineutrino flux prediction used the Bugey4 measurement as an anchor point. The deficit can be interpreted as an indication of a non-zero value of the still unmeasured neutrino mixing parameter \sang. Analyzing both the rate of the prompt positrons and their energy spectrum we find \sang = 0.086 $\pm$ 0.041 (stat) $\pm$ 0.030 (syst), or, at 90% CL, 0.015 $<$ \sang $\ <$ 0.16., Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, (new version after PRL referee's comments)

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2011
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10. Precision Muon Reconstruction in Double Chooz

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Stefan Schoppmann, Yuri Kamyshkov, P.-J. Chang, M. Obolensky, H. de Kerret, M. Vivier, Kazuhiro Terao, L. N. Kalousis, J. Maricic, Marcos Cerrada, N. Vassilopoulos, M. Elnimr, Christopher Wiebusch, C. Grant, S. Shimojima, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, Cécile Jollet, B. Reinhold, H. Watanabe, V. Zimmer, G. A. Valdiviesso, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, S. Perasso, G. A. Horton-Smith, M. C. Goodman, J.V. Dawson, A. S. Cucoanes, E. Blucher, A. Osborn, E. Chauveau, Daniel M. Kaplan, T. Miletic, Zelimir Djurcic, R. Milincic, R. Carr, R. Roncin, G. Yang, L. Goodenough, R. Santorelli, M. Kuze, Christian Buck, Ying Sun, B. Rybolt, E. Damon, V. Sibille, J. Reichenbacher, A. Tonazzo, D. Kryn, S. Roth, A.V. Etenko, Eric Baussan, P. Novella, Luis González, G. Pronost, D. Dietrich, Thierry Lasserre, J. M. LoSecco, M. Franke, A. Hourlier, Lydie Giot, Anselmo Meregaglia, T. Hara, J. Maeda, J. C. Barriere, I. M. Pepe, J. Martino, P. Chimenti, Tobias Lachenmaier, Y. Sakamoto, T.J.C. Bezerra, J. C. dos Anjos, G. Mention, S. Lucht, T. Matsubara, David Lhuillier, Marcos Dracos, I. Stancu, A.C. Schilithz, Yoshio Abe, Janet Conrad, J. M. López-Castaño, Lothar Oberauer, S. Schönert, S. M. Fernandes, H. Furuta, Anatael Cabrera, P. Pfahler, C. E. Lane, I. Bekman, Achim Stahl, R. Sharankova, S. V. Sukhotin, E. Smith, J. Dhooghe, L. B. Bezrukov, M. Röhling, Muriel Fallot, E. Caden, J. Haser, E. Conover, M. H. Shaevitz, A. Onillon, L. Camilleri, T. Kawasaki, A. Stüken, A. Minotti, C. Palomares, V. Fischer, N. Haag, M. Göger-Neff, Florian Kaether, C. Veyssiere, Michael Hofmann, J. Felde, D. Franco, V. V. Sinev, Masaki Ishitsuka, Audrey Letourneau, Lindley Winslow, Yasushi Nagasaka, E. Kemp, D. Shrestha, M. Bergevin, F. Suekane, L.F.F. Stokes, T. Sumiyoshi, K. Crum, J. I. Crespo-Anadón, Amanda Porta, J. Spitz, Y. Nikitenko, I. Gil-Botella, C. Mariani, Josef Jochum, F. Yermia, Matthew L Strait, Robert Svoboda, F. von Feilitzsch, H. P. Lima, J. Busenitz, Sebastian Wagner, Manfred Lindner, Antoine Collin, N. Walsh, H. H. Trinh Thi, Double Chooz Collaboration, Département d'Ingénierie des Systèmes (ex SIS) (DIS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Max-Planck-Institut, Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), Département de Physique Nucléaire (ex SPhN) (DPHN), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Double Chooz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Conrad, Janet Marie, Spitz, Joshua B., Terao, Kazuhiro, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Double-CHOOZ, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA), Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Abe, Y, Dos Anjos, J, Barriere, J, Baussan, E, Bekman, I, Bergevin, M, Bezerra, T, Bezrukov, L, Blucher, E, Buck, C, Busenitz, J, Cabrera, A, Caden, E, Camilleri, L, Carr, R, Cerrada, M, Chang, P, Chauveau, E, Chimenti, P, Collin, A, Conover, E, Conrad, J, Crespo-Anadon, J, Crum, K, Cucoanes, A, Damon, E, Dawson, J, Dhooghe, J, Dietrich, D, Djurcic, Z, Dracos, M, Elnimr, M, Etenko, A, Fallot, M, Von Feilitzsch, F, Felde, J, Fernandes, S, Fischer, V, Franco, D, Franke, M, Furuta, H, Gil-Botella, I, Giot, L, Goger-Neff, M, Gonzalez, L, Goodenough, L, Goodman, M, Grant, C, Haag, N, Hara, T, Haser, J, Hofmann, M, Horton-Smith, G, Hourlier, A, Ishitsuka, M, Jochum, J, Jollet, C, Kaether, F, Kalousis, L, Kamyshkov, Y, Kaplan, D, Kawasaki, T, Kemp, E, De Kerret, H, Kryn, D, Kuze, M, Lachenmaier, T, Lane, C, Lasserre, T, Letourneau, A, Lhuillier, D, Lima, J, Lindner, M, Lopez-Castano, J, Losecco, J, Lubsandorzhiev, B, Lucht, S, Maeda, J, Mariani, C, Maricic, J, Martino, J, Matsubara, T, Mention, G, Meregaglia, A, Miletic, T, Milincic, R, Minotti, A, Nagasaka, Y, Nikitenko, Y, Novella, P, Oberauer, L, Obolensky, M, Onillon, A, Osborn, A, Palomares, C, Pepe, I, Perasso, S, Pfahler, P, Porta, A, Pronost, G, Reichenbacher, J, Reinhold, B, Rohling, M, Roncin, R, Roth, S, Rybolt, B, Sakamoto, Y, Santorelli, R, Schilithz, A, Schonert, S, Schoppmann, S, Shaevitz, M, Sharankova, R, Shimojima, S, Shrestha, D, Sibille, V, Sinev, V, Skorokhvatov, M, Smith, E, Spitz, J, Stahl, A, Stancu, I, Stokes, L, Strait, M, Stuken, A, Suekane, F, Sukhotin, S, Sumiyoshi, T, Sun, Y, Svoboda, R, Terao, K, Tonazzo, A, Trinh Thi, H, Valdiviesso, G, Vassilopoulos, N, Veyssiere, C, Vivier, M, Wagner, S, Walsh, N, Watanabe, H, Wiebusch, C, Winslow, L, Wurm, M, Yang, G, Yermia, F, and Zimmer, V

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, STRIPS, Double Chooz, Muon reconstruction, Neutrino detector, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], CHOOZ, Scintillator, High Energy Physics - Experiment, law.invention, NO, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), law, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Instrumentation, Image resolution, Physics, Muon, Detector, Reconstruction algorithm, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment
Abstract

We describe a muon track reconstruction algorithm for the reactor anti-neutrino experiment Double Chooz. The Double Chooz detector consists of two optically isolated volumes of liquid scintillator viewed by PMTs, and an Outer Veto above these made of crossed scintillator strips. Muons are reconstructed by their Outer Veto hit positions along with timing information from the other two detector volumes. All muons are fit under the hypothesis that they are through-going and ultrarelativistic. If the energy depositions suggest that the muon may have stopped, the reconstruction fits also for this hypothesis and chooses between the two via the relative goodness-of-fit. In the ideal case of a through-going muon intersecting the center of the detector, the resolution is ∼40 mm in each transverse dimension. High quality muon reconstruction is an important tool for reducing the impact of the cosmogenic isotope background in Double Chooz., National Science Foundation (U.S.), United States. Department of Energy

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2014
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11. Ortho-positronium observation in the Double Chooz experiment

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R. Milincic, Christian Buck, B. Rybolt, S. V. Sukhotin, A. Minotti, Ernesto Kemp, Cécile Jollet, D. Dietrich, M. Röhling, Matthew L Strait, N. Haag, G. Pronost, E. Damon, J. Martino, E. Caden, S. Lucht, A.V. Etenko, Masahiro Kuze, Eric Baussan, E. Chauveau, L. B. Bezrukov, Michael Wurm, H. Watanabe, M. Obolensky, Kazuhiro Terao, G. Mention, Christopher Wiebusch, G. A. Valdiviesso, P. Novella, R. Sharankova, Lydie Giot, L.N. Kalousis, S. Shimojima, Achim Stahl, Michael H. Shaevitz, M. Göger-Neff, Takeo Kawasaki, V. Zimmer, I. Stancu, K. Crum, Z. Djurcic, D. Lhuillier, M. Cerrada, P. Chimenti, V. Sinev, A. S. Cucoanes, G. A. Horton-Smith, M. Skorokhvatov, R. Carr, Bayarto Lubsandorzhiev, H. Furuta, A. Tonazzo, C. Mariani, Thierry Lasserre, A. Onillon, Josef Jochum, J. I. Crespo-Anadón, Y. Kamyshkov, J. Busenitz, L. Camilleri, C. Palomares, J. C. Barriere, J. Reichenbacher, Lindley Winslow, H. H. Trinh Thi, F. von Feilitzsch, Anatael Cabrera, Luis González, N. Vassilopoulos, J.V. Dawson, Yasushi Nagasaka, J. Dhooghe, E. Conover, R. Santorelli, T.J.C. Bezerra, V. Fischer, J. Haser, J. Maricic, M. Franke, M. Vivier, Stefan Schoppmann, I. M. Pepe, Eluned Smith, D. Kryn, T. Sumiyoshi, Y. Sakamoto, C. E. Lane, T. Miletic, A. Osborn, M. Ishitsuka, F. Suekane, F. Yermia, L.F.F. Stokes, Sebastian Wagner, Manfred Lindner, Antoine Collin, Y. Nikitenko, P. Pfahler, V. Sibille, T. Hara, Alain Letourneau, E. Blucher, N. Walsh, J. Maeda, L. Goodenough, S. M. Fernandes, I. Gil-Botella, L. Oberauer, C. Veyssiere, J. C. dos Anjos, Amanda Porta, Maury Goodman, Tobias Lachenmaier, Yoshio Abe, A. Hourlier, Daniel M. Kaplan, Janet Conrad, S. Perasso, Anselmo Meregaglia, H. de Kerret, R. Roncin, T. Matsubara, Ying Sun, B. Reinhold, Stefan Schönert, John M. LoSecco, M. Elnimr, Michael Hofmann, C. Grant, D. Shrestha, J. Spitz, M. Bergevin, Stefan Roth, A.C. Schilithz, I. Bekman, A. Stüken, P.-J. Chang, J. M. López-Castaño, Muriel Fallot, Florian Kaether, J. Felde, D. Franco, Robert Svoboda, H. P. Lima, M. Dracos, G. Yang, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Département de Physique Nucléaire (ex SPhN) (DPHN), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département d'Ingénierie des Systèmes (ex SIS) (DIS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Conrad, Janet, Spitz, Joshua B., Terao, K., Winslow, Lindley, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Center for Neutrino Physics, Abe, Y, Dos Anjos, J, Barriere, J, Baussan, E, Bekman, I, Bergevin, M, Bezerra, T, Bezrukov, L, Blucher, E, Buck, C, Busenitz, J, Cabrera, A, Caden, E, Camilleri, L, Carr, R, Cerrada, M, Chang, P, Chauveau, E, Chimenti, P, Collin, A, Conover, E, Conrad, J, Crespo-Anado, J, Crum, K, Cucoanes, A, Damon, E, Dawson, J, Dhooghe, J, Dietrich, D, Djurcic, Z, Dracos, M, Elnimr, M, Etenko, A, Fallot, M, Von Feilitzsch, F, Felde, J, Fernandes, S, Fischer, V, Franco, D, Franke, M, Furuta, H, Gil-Botella, I, Giot, L, Goger-Neff, M, Gonzalez, L, Goodenough, L, Goodman, M, Grant, C, Haag, N, Hara, T, Haser, J, Hofmann, M, Horton-Smith, G, Hourlier, A, Ishitsuka, M, Jochum, J, Jollet, C, Kaether, F, Kalousis, L, Kamyshkov, Y, Kaplan, D, Kawasaki, T, Kemp, E, De Kerret, H, Kryn, D, Kuze, M, Lachenmaier, T, Lane, C, Lasserre, T, Letourneau, A, Lhuillier, D, Lima, H, Lindner, M, Lopez-Castano, J, Losecco, J, Lubsandorzhiev, B, Lucht, S, Maeda, J, Mariani, C, Maricic, J, Martino, J, Matsubara, T, Mention, G, Meregaglia, A, Miletic, T, Milincic, R, Minotti, A, Nagasaka, Y, Nikitenko, Y, Novella, P, Oberauer, L, Obolensky, M, Onillon, A, Osborn, A, Palomares, C, Pepe, I, Perasso, S, Pfahler, P, Porta, A, Pronost, G, Reichenbacher, J, Reinhold, B, Rohling, M, Roncin, R, Roth, S, Rybolt, B, Sakamoto, Y, Santorelli, R, Schilithz, A, Schonert, S, Schoppmann, S, Shaevitz, M, Sharankova, R, Shimojima, S, Shrestha, D, Sibille, V, Sinev, V, Skorokhvatov, M, Smith, E, Spitz, J, Stahl, A, Stancu, I, Stokes, L, Strait, M, Stuken, A, Suekane, F, Sukhotin, S, Sumiyoshi, T, Sun, Y, Svoboda, R, Terao, K, Tonazzo, A, Thi, H, Valdiviesso, G, Vassilopoulos, N, Veyssiere, C, Vivier, M, Wagner, S, Walsh, N, Watanabe, H, Wiebusch, C, Winslow, L, Wurm, M, Yang, G, Yermia, F, Zimmera, V, Double Chooz Collaboration, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)

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Physics, Neutrino Detectors and Telescopes, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Neutrino Detectors and Telescope, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Electron, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Scintillator, CHOOZ, Particle identification, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Positronium, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Positron, Inverse beta decay, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

The Double Chooz experiment measures the neutrino mixing angle θ13 by detecting reactor ν¯e via inverse beta decay. The positron-neutron space and time coincidence allows for a sizable background rejection, nonetheless liquid scintillator detectors would profit from a positron/electron discrimination, if feasible in large detector, to suppress the remaining background. Standard particle identification, based on particle dependent time profile of photon emission in liquid scintillator, can not be used given the identical mass of the two particles. However, the positron annihilation is sometimes delayed by the ortho-positronium (o-Ps) metastable state formation, which induces a pulse shape distortion that could be used for positron identification. In this paper we report on the first observation of positronium formation in a large liquid scintillator detector based on pulse shape analysis of single events. The o-Ps formation fraction and its lifetime were measured, finding the values of 44% ± 12% (sys.) ± 5% (stat.) and 3.68ns ± 0.17ns (sys.) ± 0.15ns (stat.) respectively, in agreement with the results obtained with a dedicated positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy setup., National Science Foundation (U.S.), United States. Dept. of Energy

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2014
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12. Journal of High Energy Physics

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G. Mention, R. Svoboda, T. Kawasaki, P. Novella, J. Dhooghe, N. Vassilopoulos, Amanda Porta, D. Kryn, Zelimir Djurcic, N. Walsh, J. Reichenbacher, J. M. López-Castaño, H. de Kerret, H. H. Trinh Thi, R. Milincic, Yuri Kamyshkov, Muriel Fallot, J. Martino, A. Cucoanes, S. Shimojima, A.C. Schilithz, P.-J. Chang, A. Onillon, L. B. Bezrukov, I. Bekman, J.V. Dawson, G. A. Horton-Smith, M. Franke, Anatael Cabrera, R. Carr, A. Stüken, S. M. Fernandes, K. Crum, Florian Kaether, E. Blucher, J. I. Crespo-Anadón, Y. Nikitenko, T. Sumiyoshi, S. Perasso, A. Minotti, Alain Letourneau, J. Felde, D. Franco, Marcos Cerrada, M. Elnimr, V. V. Sinev, Eric Baussan, Marcos Dracos, David Lhuillier, Ernesto Kemp, L. Camilleri, E. Damon, R. Sharankova, V. Fischer, J. Maricic, Manfred Lindner, J. C. dos Anjos, Antoine Collin, D. Shrestha, M. Obolensky, R. Santorelli, Luis González, Cécile Jollet, B. Reinhold, E. Conover, M. Bergevin, Yoshio Abe, L. N. Kalousis, T.J.C. Bezerra, S. Lucht, S. Roth, J. M. LoSecco, Anselmo Meregaglia, J. Spitz, Lothar Oberauer, Daniel M. Kaplan, C. Palomares, A. Stahl, Y. Sakamoto, I. Gil-Botella, V. Zimmer, C. Grant, C. Veyssiere, Tobias Lachenmaier, V. Sibille, S. V. Sukhotin, E. Smith, H. P. Lima, A. Osborn, M. Kuze, N. Haag, Christian Buck, B. Rybolt, R. Roncin, J. C. Barriere, J. Busenitz, Ying Sun, C. Mariani, A. Hourlier, Lydie Giot, M. Röhling, Josef Jochum, Junpei Maeda, L. Goodenough, F. von Feilitzsch, D. Dietrich, Michael Hofmann, Stefan Wagner, Matthew L Strait, Janet Conrad, T. Hara, A. Tonazzo, M. Göger-Neff, Kazuhiro Terao, Christopher Wiebusch, Yasushi Nagasaka, G. A. Valdiviesso, S. Schönert, M. C. Goodman, T. Miletic, F. Yermia, I. M. Pepe, P. Chimenti, G. Pronost, P. Pfahler, C. E. Lane, T. Matsubara, E. Chauveau, M. H. Shaevitz, E. Caden, Masaki Ishitsuka, Lindley Winslow, Stefan Schoppmann, J. Haser, M. Vivier, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, H. Watanabe, G. Yang, Bayarto Lubsandorzhiev, Thierry Lasserre, F. Suekane, L.F.F. Stokes, A.V. Etenko, I. Stancu, H. Furuta, Double Chooz Collaboration, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes), Double-CHOOZ, Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Abe, Y, dos Anjos, J, Barriere, J, Baussan, E, Bekman, I, Bergevin, M, Bezerra, T, Bezrukov, L, Blucher, E, Buck, C, Busenitz, J, Cabrera, A, Caden, E, Camilleri, L, Carr, R, Cerrada, M, Chang, P, Chauveau, E, Chimenti, P, Collin, A, Conover, E, Conrad, J, Crespo-Anadon, J, Crum, K, Cucoanes, A, Damon, E, Dawson, J, Dhooghe, J, Dietrich, D, Djurcic, Z, Dracos, M, Elnimr, M, Etenko, A, Fallot, M, von Feilitzsch, F, Felde, J, Fernandes, S, Fischer, V, Franco, D, Franke, M, Furuta, H, Gil-Botella, I, Giot, L, Goger-Neff, M, Gonzalez, L, Goodenough, L, Goodman, M, Grant, C, Haag, N, Hara, T, Haser, J, Hofmann, M, Horton-Smith, G, Hourlier, A, Ishitsuka, M, Jochum, J, Jollet, C, Kaether, F, Kalousis, L, Kamyshkov, Y, Kaplan, D, Kawasaki, T, Kemp, E, de Kerret, H, Kryn, D, Kuze, M, Lachenmaier, T, Lane, C, Lasserre, T, Letourneau, A, Lhuillier, D, Lima, H, Lindner, M, Lopez-Castano, J, Losecco, J, Lubsandorzhiev, B, Lucht, S, Maeda, J, Mariani, C, Maricic, J, Martino, J, Matsubara, T, Mention, G, Meregaglia, A, Miletic, T, Milincic, R, Minotti, A, Nagasaka, Y, Nikitenko, Y, Novella, P, Oberauer, L, Obolensky, M, Onillon, A, Osborn, A, Palomares, C, Pepe, I, Perasso, S, Pfahler, P, Porta, A, Pronost, G, Reichenbacher, J, Reinhold, B, Rohling, M, Roncin, R, Roth, S, Rybolt, B, Sakamoto, Y, Santorelli, R, Schilithz, A, Schonert, S, Schoppmann, S, Shaevitz, M, Sharankova, R, Shimojima, S, Shrestha, D, Sibille, V, Sinev, V, Skorokhvatov, M, Smith, E, Spitz, J, Stahl, A, Stancu, I, Stokes, L, Strait, M, Stuken, A, Suekane, F, Sukhotin, S, Sumiyoshi, T, Sun, Y, Svoboda, R, Terao, K, Tonazzo, A, Trinh Thi, H, Valdiviesso, G, Vassilopoulos, N, Veyssiere, C, Vivier, M, Wagner, S, Walsh, N, Watanabe, H, Wiebusch, C, Winslow, L, Wurm, M, Yang, G, Yermia, F, Zimmer, V, Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), and Center for Neutrino Physics

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics, [PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Neutrino Detectors and Telescope, FOS: Physical sciences, CHOOZ, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Experiment, Distortion, 0103 physical sciences, Energy spectrum, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], High Energy Physics, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Mixing (physics), Physics, Neutrino Detectors and Telescopes, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Oscillation, [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Detector, Function (mathematics), Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Neutrino, Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

The Double Chooz experiment presents improved measurements of the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ using the data collected in 467.90 live days from a detector positioned at an average distance of 1050 m from two reactor cores at the Chooz nuclear power plant. Several novel techniques have been developed to achieve significant reductions of the backgrounds and systematic uncertainties with respect to previous publications, whereas the efficiency of the $\bar\nu_{e}$ signal has increased. The value of $\theta_{13}$ is measured to be $\sin^{2}2\theta_{13} = 0.090 ^{+0.032}_{-0.029}$ from a fit to the observed energy spectrum. Deviations from the reactor $\bar\nu_{e}$ prediction observed above a prompt signal energy of 4 MeV and possible explanations are also reported. A consistent value of $\theta_{13}$ is obtained from a fit to the observed rate as a function of the reactor power independently of the spectrum shape and background estimation, demonstrating the robustness of the $\theta_{13}$ measurement despite the observed distortion., Comment: 44 pages, 25 figures. Figures 21 and 22 have been replaced (statistical error bars for bins above 8 MeV have become smaller). No other changes in the results of the paper; an Erratum submitted to JHEP

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2014
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13. First test of Lorentz violation with a reactor-based antineutrino experiment

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V. Fischer, P. Novella, T. Sumiyoshi, J. L. Sida, Achim Stahl, Michael H. Shaevitz, G. Keefer, I. Ostrovskiy, A. Bernstein, H. Furuta, T.J.C. Bezerra, E. Damon, A. Onillon, G. Mention, Matthew L Strait, Michael Wurm, H. Watanabe, D. Greiner, D. Lhuillier, K. Nakajima, V. Zimmer, M. Cerrada, A. J. Franke, Z. Djurcic, P. Pfahler, J. Maeda, M. Göger-Neff, Takeo Kawasaki, Iuri Muniz Pepe, R. Gama, M. Bergevin, V. Sinev, M. Skorokhvatov, Bayarto Lubsandorzhiev, M. Röhling, Thierry Lasserre, Th. A. Mueller, G. Pronost, Stefan Roth, J. Reichenbacher, J.V. Dawson, Caren Hagner, J. M. López-Castaño, Muriel Fallot, T. Classen, J. Martino, Anatael Cabrera, Teppei Katori, Florian Kaether, Yu. Efremenko, Y. Kamyshkov, J. Felde, D. Franco, L. Camilleri, C. Palomares, Kazuhiro Terao, A. Stüken, F. Sato, M. Toups, Christopher Wiebusch, E. Conover, G. A. Valdiviesso, Yasushi Nagasaka, J. C. dos Anjos, J. Maricic, H. Miyata, Christian Buck, B. Rybolt, E. Caden, V. Durand, Yoshio Abe, D. McKee, Frank Hartmann, Anna Erickson, C. N. Maesano, F. Suekane, L.F.F. Stokes, C. Mariani, J. Haser, Josef Jochum, D. Dietrich, L. Bezrukhov, F. von Feilitzsch, Lindley Winslow, L. Oberauer, Lydie Giot, S. Dazeley, H. P. Lima, D. Shrestha, M. Elnimr, J. Spitz, C. Aberle, Ernesto Kemp, Stefan Schoppmann, J. Busenitz, Masahiro Kuze, Cécile Jollet, P. Chimenti, T. Matsubara, A. Remoto, A. Hatzikoutelis, H. H. Trinh Thi, R. Milincic, M. Franke, C. E. Lane, M. Ishitsuka, I. Stancu, M. Fechner, M. Worcester, T. Miletic, S. Habib, F. Yermia, M. Dracos, I. Gil-Botella, S. Perasso, C. Veyssiere, P. Perrin, A. Osborn, R. Roncin, Tobias Lachenmaier, Ying Sun, Tomoyuki Konno, Daniel M. Kaplan, A. Tonazzo, Stefan Schönert, John M. LoSecco, M. V. d'Agostino, S. V. Sukhotin, E. Smith, N. Haag, B. Reinhold, S. Lucht, M. Obolensky, G. A. Horton-Smith, L. N. Kalousis, C. L. Jones, Michael Hofmann, T. Schwetz, Luis González, Nathaniel Bowden, A. S. Cucoanes, Janet Conrad, W. Potzel, Manuel Meyer, B. R. White, J. Ebert, Sebastian Wagner, Manfred Lindner, Antoine Collin, E. Blucher, Maury Goodman, P.-J. Chang, K. Crum, E. Yanovitch, R. Carr, Alain Letourneau, D. Kryn, Anselmo Meregaglia, Amanda Porta, J. I. Crespo-Anadón, H. de Kerret, T. Hayakawa, T. Hara, R. Santorelli, J. Tm. Goon, Y. Sakamoto, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes), Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Double-CHOOZ, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Double Chooz Collaboration, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Lorentz transformation, FOS: Physical sciences, Electron, Lorentz covariance, CHOOZ, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, symbols.namesake, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Sidereal time, 0103 physical sciences, symbols, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Electron neutrino
Abstract

We present a search for Lorentz violation with 8249 candidate electron antineutrino events taken by the Double Chooz experiment in 227.9 live days of running. This analysis, featuring a search for a sidereal time dependence of the events, is the first test of Lorentz invariance using a reactor-based antineutrino source. No sidereal variation is present in the data and the disappearance results are consistent with sidereal time independent oscillations. Under the Standard-Model Extension (SME), we set the first limits on fourteen Lorentz violating coefficients associated with transitions between electron and tau flavor, and set two competitive limits associated with transitions between electron and muon flavor., Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures; (new version after referee's comments)

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2012
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14. Direct Measurement of Backgrounds using Reactor-Off Data in Double Chooz

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J. Maricic, A. Hourlier, Lydie Giot, Matthew L Strait, M. Röhling, A.V. Etenko, J. Ebert, Audrey Letourneau, R. Santorelli, Janet Conrad, I. Stancu, Sebastian Wagner, Manfred Lindner, H. Furuta, Antoine Collin, Daniel M. Kaplan, R. Roncin, E. Blucher, S. Schönert, M. Franke, Ying Sun, T. Hayakawa, S. Dazeley, M. D. Skorokhvatov, Michael Wurm, H. Watanabe, T. Sumiyoshi, T. Konno, D. Kryn, F. Suekane, L.F.F. Stokes, S. Roth, C. Veyssiere, T. Hara, M. Elnimr, B. K. Lubsandorzhiev, A. Bernstein, I. Ostrovskiy, W. Potzel, Th. A. Mueller, T. Miletic, S. Habib, S. M. Fernandes, D. Shrestha, Amanda Porta, R. Gama, Z. Djurcic, E. Damon, S. Perasso, H. Miyata, G. Mention, A. Onillon, A. Cucoanes, K. Nakajima, M. Worcester, Yuri Kamyshkov, D. McKee, Stefan Schoppmann, Christian Buck, Thierry Lasserre, F. Yermia, L. Camilleri, B. Rybolt, A. Remoto, Michael Hofmann, B. White, J. Spitz, P. Novella, J. C. Barriere, C. N. Maesano, D. Dietrich, C. Mariani, T. Kawasaki, Josef Jochum, V. V. Sinev, M. Göger-Neff, P.-J. Chang, V. Durand, A. Hatzikoutelis, P. Perrin, L. Bezrukhov, F. von Feilitzsch, Marcos Cerrada, E. Caden, H. P. Lima, V. Zimmer, David Lhuillier, Lothar Oberauer, J. Reichenbacher, Yasushi Nagasaka, Anatael Cabrera, M. Toups, J. T. M. Goon, A. J. Franke, J. L. Sida, C. Aberle, J. Busenitz, Masahiro Kuze, Anna Erickson, J. M. López-Castaño, J. Haser, S. Shimojima, Muriel Fallot, T. Classen, Michael Fechner, G. A. Horton-Smith, J.V. Dawson, I. M. Pepe, P. Chimenti, C. Palomares, J. M. LoSecco, G. Keefer, T. Matsubara, C. Langbrandtner, E. Kemp, Anselmo Meregaglia, Cécile Jollet, B. Reinhold, Florian Kaether, Y. Kibe, M. Ishitsuka, E. Conover, J. Felde, D. Franco, C. L. Jones, Lindley Winslow, H. H. Trinh Thi, J. Maeda, F. Hartmann, A. Stüken, F. Sato, R. Carr, D. Greiner, I. Gil-Botella, Tobias Lachenmaier, Kazuhiro Terao, L. Goodenough, R. Milincic, Robert Svoboda, Christopher Wiebusch, G. A. Valdiviesso, A. Tonazzo, M. C. Goodman, J. C. dos Anjos, Luis González, Nathaniel Bowden, Thomas Schwetz, Achim Stahl, Yoshio Abe, M. Obolensky, G. Pronost, H. de Kerret, L. N. Kalousis, T.J.C. Bezerra, P. Pfahler, C. E. Lane, A. Osborn, M. V. d'Agostino, S. V. Sukhotin, E. Smith, N. Haag, Manuel Meyer, Marcos Dracos, S. Lucht, V. Fischer, J. Martino, M. Bergevin, K. Crum, J. I. Crespo-Anadón, Y. Sakamoto, M. H. Shaevitz, Yu. Efremenko, Caren Hagner, APC - Neutrinos, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes), Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique Nucl'eaire, Atomique et de Spectroscopie, Université de Liège, Double-CHOOZ, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Conrad, Janet, Jones, Christopher LaDon, Spitz, Joshua B., Terao, Yasuaki, Winslow, L., Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), and Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Daya bay, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, CHOOZ, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Nuclear Experiment, Physics, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Oscillation, Neutron temperature, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], 13. Climate action, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino
Abstract

Double Chooz is unique among modern reactor-based neutrino experiments studying ν¯e disappearance in that data can be collected with all reactors off. In this paper, we present data from 7.53 days of reactor-off running. Applying the same selection criteria as used in the Double Chooz reactor-on oscillation analysis, a measured background rate of 1.0±0.4 events/day is obtained. The background model for accidentals, cosmogenic β-n-emitting isotopes, fast neutrons from cosmic muons, and stopped-μ decays used in the oscillation analysis is demonstrated to be correct within the uncertainties. Kinematic distributions of the events, which are dominantly cosmic-ray-produced correlated-background events, are provided. The background rates are scaled to the shielding depths of two other reactor-based oscillation experiments, Daya Bay and RENO., United States. Dept. of Energy, National Science Foundation (U.S.)

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2012
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