Publications (15)
Cosmic-muon characterization and annual modulation measurement with Double Chooz detectors
T. Abrahão, H. Almazan, J. C. dos Anjos +107
A study on cosmic muons has been performed for the two identical near and far neutrino detectors of the Double Chooz experiment, placed at 120 and 300 m.w.e. undergroun…
First Measurement of θ_13 from Delayed Neutron Capture on Hydrogen in the Double Chooz Experiment
Double Chooz Collaboration, Y. Abe, C. Aberle +169
The Double Chooz experiment has determined the value of the neutrino oscillation parameter from an analysis of inverse beta decay interactions with neutron capture on hyd…
Characterization of the Spontaneous Light Emission of the PMTs used in the Double Chooz Experiment
Double Chooz collaboration, Y. Abe, T. Abrahão +146
During the commissioning of the first of the two detectors of the Double Chooz experiment, an unexpected and dominant background caused by the emission of light inside the optical…
Ortho-positronium observation in the Double Chooz Experiment
Y. Abe, J. C. dos Anjos, J. C. Barriere +143
The Double Chooz experiment measures the neutrino mixing angle by detecting reactor via inverse beta decay. The positron-neutron space and time coincidence all…
New Search for Mirror Neutrons at HFIR
L. J. Broussard, K. M. Bailey, W. B. Bailey +22
The theory of mirror matter predicts a hidden sector made up of a copy of the Standard Model particles and interactions but with opposite parity. If mirror matter interacts with or…
First Test of Lorentz Violation with a Reactor-based Antineutrino Experiment
Double Chooz Collaboration, Y. Abe, C. Aberle +164
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, featur…
The Double Chooz antineutrino detectors
Double Chooz Collaboration, H. de Kerret, Y. Abe +247
This article describes the setup and performance of the near and far detectors in the Double Chooz experiment. The electron antineutrinos of the Chooz nuclear power plant were meas…
New high-sensitivity searches for neutrons converting into antineutrons and/or sterile neutrons at the European Spallation Source
A. Addazi, K. Anderson, S. Ansell +92
The violation of Baryon Number, , is an essential ingredient for the preferential creation of matter over antimatter needed to account for the observed baryon asymmetr…
Precision Muon Reconstruction in Double Chooz
Double Chooz collaboration, Y. Abe, J. C. dos Anjos +141
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 liq…
Measurement of in Double Chooz using neutron captures on hydrogen with novel background rejection techniques
Y. Abe, S. Appel, T. Abrahão +142
The Double Chooz collaboration presents a measurement of the neutrino mixing angle using reactor observed via the inverse beta decay reaction in which t…
Improved measurements of the neutrino mixing angle with the Double Chooz detector
Y. Abe, J. C. dos Anjos, J. C. Barriere +143
The Double Chooz experiment presents improved measurements of the neutrino mixing angle using the data collected in 467.90 live days from a detector positioned at an aver…
The Intermediate Neutrino Program
C. Adams, J. R. Alonso, A. M. Ankowski +186
The US neutrino community gathered at the Workshop on the Intermediate Neutrino Program (WINP) at Brookhaven National Laboratory February 4-6, 2015 to explore opportunities in neut…
Background-independent measurement of in Double Chooz
Y. Abe, J. C. dos Anjos, J. C. Barriere +143
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 back…
Muon capture on light isotopes in Double Chooz
Double Chooz collaboration, Y. Abe, T. Abrahão +144
Using the Double Chooz detector, designed to measure the neutrino mixing angle , the products of capture on C, C, N and O have been meas…
Direct Measurement of Backgrounds using Reactor-Off Data in Double Chooz
Y. Abe, C. Aberle, J. C. dos Anjos +170
Double Chooz is unique among modern reactor-based neutrino experiments studying disappearance in that data can be collected with all reactors off. In this paper, we pre…