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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik
T 102: Niederenergie-Neutrinophysik III
T 102.2: Talk
Thursday, March 3, 2016, 17:05–17:20, VMP9 SR 07
Sterile Neutrino Search with the Double Chooz Experiment — •Denise Hellwig, Ilja Bekman, Philipp Kampmann, Stefan Schoppmann, Michael Soiron, Achim Stahl, and Christopher Wiebusch — III. Physikalisches Institut B - RWTH Aachen
The Double Chooz experiment is a reactor neutrino disappearance experiment located at the Chooz nuclear power plant, France. It measures the electron-antineutrino flux of the two nuclear reactors with two detectors of identical design. A far detector at a distance of about 1 km is operating since 2011; a near detector at a distance of about 400 m is operating since the end of 2014. The combination of the two detectors offers sensitivity to sterile neutrino mixing parameters. Sterile neutrinos are neutrino mass states not taking part in weak interactions, but may mix with known neutrino states. This induces additional mixing angles and mass differences. This talk describes the search for sterile neutrinos and the sensitivity of Double Chooz to the mixing angle θ14.