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Publications (15)

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2013

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…

physics.ins-det2016

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…

physics.ins-det2014

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…

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2012

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…

physics.ins-det2022

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…

physics.ins-det2020

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…

physics.ins-det2014

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…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2014

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…

nucl-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2012

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…