Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Apr 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002aps..apr.d2003b&link_type=abstract
American Physical Society, April Meeting, Jointly Sponsored with the High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American As
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
KamLAND is a one-kiloton liquid-scintillator neutrino detector located at the site of the old Kamiokande experiment in central Japan. The experiment will have two phases. The first uses the full array of Japanese nuclear power reactors in a long-baseline antineutrino oscillation measurement. Antineutrinos can be identified in the detector though their double-coincidence signal. KamLAND expects either to measure or rule out oscillations in the ``large mixing angle" region. In the second phase of the experiment, KamLAND hopes to directly measure the solar neutrino spectrum down to lower energies than are possible in water Cherenkov detectors. This phase requires a very low background environment and high scintillator purity, and will rely heavily on the understanding of backgrounds gained in the first phase. In this talk I will summarize the physics motivation for KamLAND and review the construction, commissioning, and initial calibration of the detector. I will also present initial data from the experiment.
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