A side-by-side comparison of Daya Bay antineutrino detectors

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作者
An, F. P. [1 ]
An, Q. [2 ]
Bai, J. Z. [1 ]
Balantekin, A. B. [3 ]
Band, H. R. [3 ]
Beriguete, W. [4 ]
Bishai, M. [4 ]
Blyth, S.
Brown, R. L. [4 ]
Cao, G. F. [1 ]
Cao, J. [1 ]
Carr, R. [5 ]
Chang, J. F. [1 ]
Chang, Y.
Chasman, C. [4 ]
Chen, H. S. [1 ]
Chen, S. J. [6 ]
Chen, S. M. [7 ]
Chen, X. C. [8 ]
Chen, X. H. [1 ]
Chen, X. S. [1 ]
Chen, Y. [9 ]
Cherwinka, J. J. [3 ]
Chu, M. C. [8 ]
Cummings, J. P. [10 ]
Deng, Z. Y. [1 ]
Ding, Y. Y. [1 ]
Diwan, M. V. [4 ]
Draeger, E. [11 ]
Du, X. F. [1 ]
Dwyer, D. [5 ]
Edwards, W. R. [12 ]
Ely, S. R. [13 ]
Fang, S. D. [6 ]
Fu, J. Y. [1 ]
Fu, Z. W. [6 ]
Ge, L. Q. [14 ]
Gill, R. L. [4 ]
Gonchar, M. [15 ]
Gong, G. H. [7 ]
Gong, H. [7 ]
Gornushkin, Y. A. [15 ]
Greenler, L. S. [3 ]
Gu, W. Q. [16 ]
Guan, M. Y. [1 ]
Guo, X. H. [17 ]
Hackenburg, R. W. [4 ]
Hahn, R. L. [4 ]
Hans, S. [4 ]
Hao, H. F. [2 ]
机构
[1] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230026, Peoples R China
[3] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[4] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[5] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[6] Nanjing Univ, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Peoples R China
[7] Tsinghua Univ, Dept Engn Phys, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China
[8] Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
[9] Shenzhen Univ, Shenzhen, Peoples R China
[10] Siena Coll, Loudonville, NY USA
[11] IIT, Dept Phys, Chicago, IL 60616 USA
[12] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[13] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL USA
[14] Chengdu Univ Technol, Chengdu, Peoples R China
[15] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
[16] Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Shanghai 200030, Peoples R China
[17] Beijing Normal Univ, Beijing 100875, Peoples R China
[18] Princeton Univ, Joseph Henry Labs, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[19] Natl Taiwan Univ, Dept Phys, Taipei, Taiwan
[20] Virginia Tech, Ctr Neutrino Phys, Blacksburg, VA USA
[21] Natl Chiao Tung Univ, Inst Phys, Hsinchu, Taiwan
[22] China Inst Atom Energy, Beijing, Peoples R China
[23] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA USA
[24] Univ Houston, Dept Phys, Houston, TX USA
[25] Shandong Univ, Jinan 250100, Peoples R China
[26] Nankai Univ, Sch Phys, Tianjin 300071, Peoples R China
[27] Univ Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH USA
[28] Dongguan Inst Technol, Dongguan, Guangdong, Peoples R China
[29] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[30] Univ Hong Kong, Dept Phys, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
[31] Charles Univ Prague, Fac Math & Phys, Prague, Czech Republic
[32] Sun Yat Sen Zhongshan Univ, Guangzhou, Peoples R China
[33] Coll William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA USA
[34] Rensselaer Polytech Inst, Troy, NY USA
[35] China Guangdong Nucl Power Grp, Shenzhen, Peoples R China
[36] Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA USA
基金
美国能源部; 中国国家自然科学基金; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Neutrino oscillation; Neutrino mixing; Reactor; Daya Bay; LOADED LIQUID SCINTILLATOR; REACTOR NEUTRINO EXPERIMENT; RPC; OSCILLATIONS; PROTOTYPE; DESIGN;
D O I
10.1016/j.nima.2012.05.030
中图分类号
TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment is designed to determine precisely the neutrino mixing angle theta(13) with a sensitivity better than 0.01 in the parameter sin(2) 2 theta(13) at the 90% confidence level. To achieve this goal, the collaboration will build eight functionally identical antineutrino detectors. The first two detectors have been constructed, installed and commissioned in Experimental Hall 1, with steady data-taking beginning September 23, 2011. A comparison of the data collected over the subsequent three months indicates that the detectors are functionally identical, and that detector-related systematic uncertainties are smaller than requirements. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:78 / 97
页数:20
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