Development and evaluation of 10-inch Photo-Multiplier Tubes for the Double Chooz experiment

Abstract

The goal of Double Chooz experiment is a precise measurement of the last unknown mixing angle theta_13 using two identical detectors placed at far and near sites from Chooz reactor cores. The detector is optimized for reactor-neutrino detection using specially developed 10-inch PMTs. We developed two types of measurement systems and evaluated 400 PMTs before the installation. Those PMTs fulfill our requirements, and a half of those have been installed to the far detector in 2009. The character and performance data of the PMTs are stored in a database and will be referenced in analysis and MC simulation.

Submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods A

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• Constraints on ${\theta }_{13}$ from A Three-Flavor Oscillation Analysis of Reactor Antineutrinos at KamLAND
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