The hunt for theta{sub 13} at the Daya Bay nuclear power plant

Journal Article · Tue Mar 30 04:00:00 EDT 2010 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3399388· OSTI ID:21367142

Wei, Wang ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 (United States)

The Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment is located at the Daya Bay nuclear power plant in Shenzhen, China. The experiment deploys eight 'identical' antineutrino detectors to measure antineutrino fluxes from six 2.9 GWth reactor cores in three underground experimental halls at different distances. The target zone of the Daya Bay detector is filled with 20 t 0.1% Gd doped LAB liquid scintillator. The baseline uncorrelated detector uncertainty is approx0.38% using current experimental techniques. Daya Bay can reach a sensitivity of sin{sup 2}2theta{sub 13}<0.01 with baseline uncertainties after 3 years of data taking.

• OSTI ID: 21367142
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1222; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ANTILEPTONS
ANTIMATTER
ANTINEUTRINOS
ANTIPARTICLES
BETA DECAY
DAYA BAY-1 REACTOR
DECAY
DETECTION
ELECTRON ANTINEUTRINOS
ELECTRON NEUTRINOS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS
FERMIONS
FIELD THEORIES
GRAND UNIFIED THEORY
LEPTONS
LEVELS
LIQUID SCINTILLATION DETECTORS
MASS
MASSLESS PARTICLES
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MATTER
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
NEUTRINO DETECTION
NEUTRINOS
NUCLEAR DECAY
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
PARTICLE MODELS
POWER PLANTS
POWER REACTORS
PWR TYPE REACTORS
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
RADIATION DETECTION
RADIATION DETECTORS
REACTOR COMPONENTS
REACTOR CORES
REACTORS
REST MASS
SCINTILLATION COUNTERS
SENSITIVITY
STANDARD MODEL
THERMAL POWER PLANTS
THERMAL REACTORS
UNDERGROUND
UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
WATER COOLED REACTORS
WATER MODERATED REACTORS
WEINBERG ANGLE