Status of the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Oscillation Experiment

Abstract

The last unknown neutrino mixing angle theta_13 is one of the fundamental parameters of nature; it is also a crucial parameter for determining the sensitivity of future long-baseline experiments aimed to study CP violation in the neutrino sector. Daya Bay is a reactor neutrino oscillation experiment designed to achieve a sensitivity on the value of sin^2(2*theta_13) to better than 0.01 at 90percent CL. The experiment consists of multiple identical detectors placed underground at different baselines to minimize systematic errors and suppress cosmogenic backgrounds. With the baseline design, the expected anti-neutrino signal at the far site is about 360 events per day and at each of the near sites is about 1500 events per day. An overview and current status of the experiment will be presented.

Locations

• arXiv (Cornell University) - View - PDF
• OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) - View
• Proceedings of 35th International Conference of High Energy Physics — PoS(ICHEP 2010) - View - PDF