DC_NDM2009

Double Chooz
Matthew Worcester (University of Chicago)
for the Double Chooz Collaboration
Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2009
September 1, 2009

September 1, 2009 Worcester (Chicago) Double Chooz 2
Neutrino Mixing
 best fits:
 what is e component of 3?
1 2
1 2 3
1 2 3
12 12 13 13
12 12 23 23
13
3
13 23
cos sin 0 cos 0 sin 1 0 0
sin cos 0 0 1 0 0 cos sin
0 0 1 sin 0 cos
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SK+K2K+MINOS
Solar+KamLand

Motivation
 Value of 13 :
 Mass hierarchy and scale
 CP violation
 CHOOZ 1997 →
 Reactor experiment
provides clean
measurement of 13:

Reactor Neutrinos
 Nuclear reactors are intense
sources with a well–measured flux
and spectrum
 3 GW → 6×1020 /sec
700 events /year/ton at 1500 m
 visible spectrum peak at ~ 3.7 MeV
 oscillation max. for Dm2=2.510-3 eV2
at L ~1500 m
Arbitrary
Observable  Spectrum
From Bemporad, Gratta and Vogel
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
1.50 2.50 3.50 4.50 5.50 6.50 7.50 8.50
E (MeV)
ObservedEvents
Dm
2
= 2.5 10
-3
eV
2
Full Mixing
No Osc.
1500 m
 Disappearance measurement:
 look for small deviation between near
(~200m) and far (~1500m) detectors:
 counting = number of events
 shape = energy spectra

Detection
 Inverse –decay:

 155Gd,157Gd capture:

  ~ 30 sec
(0.1% Gd concentration)
 Events selected by
coincidence
  energy spectrum given by
visible e+ energy:
 E = Evis + 1.8 MeV – 2me
6 meters
Shielding
n
e+
e
Liquid Scintillator
with Gadolinium
= Photomultiplier Tube

13 Limits
 5.55 m3 doped target in single
detector @ 1050m
 ~3 months data-taking
 2% systematic on reactor flux
2
atmmD 2
solarmD
CHOOZ:

Improve Limits
 Add identical near detector: need only relative acceptance
 remove systematics from reactor neutrino flux, energy
 New detector design
 low radioactivity PMTs protected by mineral oil
 addition of non-doped “gamma-catcher” defines target volume
 New Gd scintillator mixture: instability in CHOOZ scintillator attenuation
 Reduce cosmogenic backgrounds: add outer detectors
Chooz B nuclear power plant
on France/Belgium border
Meuse river

Double Chooz
Features of Double Chooz site:
• 24.27 GWthermal reactors – 8.54 GW maximum power
• Far site hall reusable from original CHOOZ with 300 mwe
mountain overburden at 1050 m baseline
• Near site: ~40 m rock (115 mwe) overburden at 410 m baseline
Far detector only
22,800 νe in 1.5 years
0.7% stat. uncertaintyNear + far detectors
45,600 νe (far detector) in 3 years
0.5% stat. uncertainty

Collaboration

Phase 1: Far detector only
Systematic % Error
Reactor Power 1.9
Energy per fission 0.6
νe/fission 0.2
ν cross section 0.1
Systematic % Error
Detector volume 0.2
Scintillator
density
0.01
H/C composition < 0.5
Gd concentration 0.3
Deadtime 0
e+ energy cut 0.1
n loss (spill in/out) < 1.0
n energy cut 0.1
Time cut 0.4
Reactor
 2.0% total systematic
 based on CHOOZ analysis
 dominates Phase 1 errors
Detector and data selection
• < 1.3% total systematic (CHOOZ analysis: 1.5% total)

Phase 2: Near + Far Detectors
Systematic errors on the relative normalization
 PMT radioactivity protected by oil buffer (CHOOZ: 60 Hz, DC: 1.5 Hz)
 cosmogenic neutron background reduced by improved vetos
 in situ calibrations improve energy scale for selection cuts

Backgrounds
 Accidental
 random coincidences between two different events (e.g. radioactive decay
plus cosmogenic neutron) together fake IBD signal
 Correlated
 fast neutron – from muon showers near detector. A single neutron can
elastically scatter in the target and subsequently capture on Gd
 muon capture – on nuclei in dead material along muon track can produce
several high-energy neutrons
 9Li – production by muon spallation inside target. Production mechanism
not well-understood. About 50% of β decays produce a neutron. 178 ms
half life causes prohibitive deadtime if vetoed by muon track in target.

Expected Sensitivity
sin22θ13 < 0.03 with
0.5% stat. uncertainty
requires systematic errors of:
 < 0.6% relative normalization
 < 1% total background

Far Site Hall

Inner Detectors
 Target
 10.3 m3 (8.8 tonnes) of 0.1%
Gd-doped LS
 Gamma-catcher
 ~50 cm (22.6 m3) of LS
 Buffer
 105 cm of nonscintillating
organic liquid (114.2 m3)
 390 10” Hamamatsu PMTs
 Inner Veto
 90 m3 LS with 78 8” PMTs
h = 2458mm
d = 2300mm
h = 3574mm
d = 3392mm
h = 5674mm
d = 5516mm
h = 6640mm
d = 6590mm

Detector Simulation
 Geant4-based Monte Carlo with ROOT output
 detailed detector geometry and pulse modeling
 νe events generated throughout central detectors
 two reconstructed events within 100 μsec window
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Outer Veto
 two 7.0 x 7.2 meter panels ~1 m above the inner detectors
 overlapped vertically for continuous active coverage
 mounted to retractable steel shielding
 one 3.6 x 3.6 m upper panel above glove box
 protects neck and provides tracking
LAYOUT
Raw muon rates
Near 5.9 Hz/m2
Far 0.62 Hz/m2

Veto Effect
 rate of neutrons (from “near-miss” muons) entering
the central detector as a function of OV width
 muons which deposit energy in the central detectors are
removed
 FLUKA generated muon sample
Near site, 100% efficient detectors
Background candidate neutron study

Far Detector Construction
Original CHOOZ hall and pit refurbished and
new cleanliness standards achieved
Construction pictures
from CEA/CNRS/IRFU

Far Detector Progress

Far Detector Current Status
Now: acrylic vessels complete
and integration is ongoing.

Near Detector Status
Preliminary

Schedule
 Geological survey completed for near lab February 2009
 Far detector
 Now installing acrylic vessels
 Outer veto module construction on schedule →
 Inner detector closed at the end of 2009
 Liquid scintillator filling through April 2010
 Begin data-taking with inner far detector in April
 Outer veto installed after filling (not required for inner detector
data taking)
 Near hall construction begins end of 2010
 Near detector data taking in 2011

Conclusion
 Double Chooz will be the first new generation
detector reactor neutrino experiment to
measure θ13
 April 2010 begin far detector data taking
 achieve current limit of sin22θ13 < 0.15 at 90% CL
with approximately one month of data
 near detector data taking in 2011
 five years after start of data taking (3 yrs of
two detectors): sin22θ13 < 0.03 at 90% CL

DC_NDM2009

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