Reactor anti-neutrino disappearance and other exciting physics with Double Chooz

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Abstract

Double Chooz is a reactor neutrino experiment which has shown evidence of electron anti-neutrino disappearance at 1 km distance. It has been able to exclude the no-oscillation hypothesis at 99.8\% CL (2.9$\sigma$) with only one detector. From a rate plus spectral shape analysis the value of sin$^{2}2\theta_{13}$ was found to be $0.109\pm0.030($stat$)\pm0.025($syst$)$. Additionally, Double Chooz has proved to be a pioneer in conducting exciting physics analyses in neutrino sector, such as the search for Lorentz violation with a reactor-based anti-neutrino source, neutrino directionality analysis and the background analysis with purely reactor-off data.

Authors

  • Deepak Shrestha

    Kansas State University