Pulse shape studies in the Double Chooz experiment, and status of the STEREO experiment
Alessandro Minotti
Vendredi 20/05/2016, 11:00-12:00
Bat 703, p 135 salle visio-conférence, CEA Saclay, Orme des Merisiers

Double Chooz and STEREO are neutrino experiments that detect reactor electron neutrino via inverse beta decay. Double Chooz recently released new results with both its detectors and an improved precision in the determination of the oscillation parameter theta13. Pulse shapes are used in Double Chooz to reject correlated background, and to tag ortho-positronium, an electron-positron bound state which could be used for a beta+/beta- separation. Double Chooz was the first reactor neutrino experiment to observe a spectral distortion in the 5 MeV region of the electron neutrino spectrum. Such distortion can be due to a problem in the beta-to-electron neutrino conversion, which may also account for the so-called reactor neutrino anomaly. This scenario, as well as the possible presence of additional neutrino families, will be investigated by the STEREO experiment, whose data taking will start within the current year.

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