The Double Chooz Experiment

Abstract

There is broad consensus in the worldwide physics community as to the need for a new reactor-neutrino experiment to measure or limit the neutrino mixing angle ${\theta }_{13}$. The Double Chooz Experiment, planned for operation in the years 2008-2011, will search for values of ${\sin }^{2}2{\theta }_{13}$ down to $\approx$0.03. This will be the first new information on ${\theta }_{13}$ in over a decade and will cover most of the remaining parameter space. A quick and relatively inexpensive project is made possible by the existing neutrino laboratory at the Chooz site.

5 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Proceedings of the Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Puerto Rico, May 30 - June 3, 2006