Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2007-04-23
Phys.Rev.D76:073001,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
7 pages, 10 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.073001
In scintillator detectors, the forward displacement of the neutron in the reaction $\bar\nu_e+p\to e^++n$ provides neutrino directional information as demonstrated by the CHOOZ reactor experiment with 2,500 events. The near detector of the forthcoming Double Chooz experiment will collect $1.6\times10^5$ events per year, enough to determine the average neutrino direction with a $1 \sigma$ half-cone aperture of $2.3^\circ$ in one year. It is more difficult to separate the two Chooz reactors that are viewed at a separation angle $\phi=30^\circ$. If their strengths are known and approximately equal, the azimuthal location of each reactor is obtained with $\pm6^\circ$ ($1 \sigma$) and the probability of confusing them with a single source is less than 11%. Five year's data reduce this ``confusion probability'' to less than 0.3%, i.e., a $3 \sigma$ separation is possible. All of these numbers improve rapidly with increasing angular separation of the sources. For a setup with $\phi=90^\circ$ and one year's data, the azimuthal $1 \sigma$ uncertainty for each source decreases to $\pm3.2^\circ$. Of course, for Double Chooz the two reactor locations are known, allowing one instead to measure their individual one-year integrated power output to $\pm11%$ ($1 \sigma$), and their five-year integrated output to $\pm4.8%$ ($1 \sigma$).
Hochmuth Kathrin A.
Lindner Manfred
~Raffelt Georg G.
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