The Double Chooz antineutrino detectors
Abstract
This article describes the setup and performance of the near and far detectors in the Double Chooz experiment. The electron antineutrinos of the Chooz nuclear power plant were measured in two identically designed detectors with different average baselines of about 400 m and 1050 m from the two reactor cores. Over many years of data taking the neutrino signals were extracted from interactions in the detectors with the goal of measuring a fundamental parameter in the context of neutrino oscillation, the mixing angle {\theta}13. The central part of the Double Chooz detectors was a main detector comprising four cylindrical volumes filled with organic liquids. From the inside towards the outside there were volumes containing gadolinium-loaded scintillator, gadolinium-free scintillator, a buffer oil and, optically separated, another liquid scintillator acting as veto system. Above this main detector an additional outer veto system using plastic scintillator strips was installed. The technologies developed in Double Chooz were inspiration for several other antineutrino detectors in the field. The detector design allowed implementation of efficient background rejection techniques including use of pulse shape information provided by the data acquisition system. The Double Chooz detectors featured remarkable stability, in particular for the detected photons, as well as high radiopurity of the detector components.
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@article{arxiv.2201.13285,
title = {The Double Chooz antineutrino detectors},
author = {Double Chooz Collaboration and H. de Kerret and Y. Abe and C. Aberle and T. Abrahão and J. M. Ahijado and T. Akiri and J. M. Alarcón and J. Alba and H. Almazan and J. C. dos Anjos and S. Appel and F. Ardellier and I. Barabanov and J. C. Barriere and E. Baussan and A. Baxter and I. Bekman and M. Bergevin and A. Bernstein and W. Bertoli and T. J. C. Bezerra and L. Bezrukov and C. Blanco and N. Bleurvacq and E. Blucher and H. Bonet and M. Bongrand and N. S Bowden and T. Brugière and C. Buck and M. Buizza Avanzini and J. Busenitz and A. Cabrera and E. Calvo and L. Camilleri and R. Carr and S. Cazaux and J. M. Cela and M. Cerrada and P. J. Chang and P. Charon and E. Chauveau and P. Chimenti and T. Classen and A. P. Collin and E. Conover and J. M Conrad and S. Cormon and O. Corpace and B. Courty and J. I. Crespo-Anadón and M. Cribier and K. Crum and S. Cuadrado and A. Cucoanes and M. D'Agostino and E. Damon and J. V. Dawson and S. Dazeley and M. Dierckxsens and D. Dietrich and Z. Djurcic and F. Dorigo and M. Dracos and V. Durand and Y. Efremekov and M. Elnimr and A. Etenko and E. Falk and M. Fallot and M. Fechner and J. Felde and S. M. Fernandes and C. Fernández-Bedoya and D. Francia and D. Franco and V. Fischer and A. J. Franke and M. Franke and H. Furuta and F. Garcia and J. Garcia and I. Gil-Botella and L. Giot and A. Givaudan and M. Göger-Neff and H. Gomez and L. F. G. Gonzalez and L. Goodenough and M. C. Goodman and J. Goon and B. Gramlich and D. Greiner and A. Guertin and B. Guillon and S. M. Habib and Y. Haddad and T. Hara and F. X. Hartmann and J. Hartnell and J. Haser and A. Hatzikoutelis and D. Hellwig and S. Hervé and R. Hofacker and G. Horton-Smith and A. Hourlier and M. Ishitsuka and K. Jänner and S. Jiménez and J. Jochum and C. Jollet and F. Kaether and K. Kale and L. Kalousis and Y. Kamyshkov and M. Kaneda and D. M. Kaplan and M. Karakac and T. Kawasaki and E. Kemp and Y. Kibe and T. Kirchner and T. Konno and D. Kryn and T. Kutter and M. Kuze and T. Lachenmaier and C. E. Lane and C. Langbrandtner and T. Lasserre and C. Lastoria and L. Latron and C. Leonardo and A. Letourneau and D. Lhuillier and H. P. Lima and M. Lindner and J. M. López-Castaño and J. M. LoSecco and B. Lubsandorzhiev and S. Lucht and J. Maeda and C. N. Maesano and C. Mariani and J. Maricic and F. Marie and J. J. Martinez and J. Martino and T. Matsubara and D. McKee and F. Meigner and G. Mention and A. Meregaglia and J. P. Meyer and T. Miletic and R. Milincic and J. F. Millot and A. Minotti and V. Mirones and H. Miyata and Th. A. Mueller and Y. Nagasaka and K. Nakajima and D. Navas-Nicolás and Y. Nikitenko and P. Novella and L. Oberauer and M. Obolensky and A. Onillon and A. Oralbaev and I. Ostrovskiy and C. Palomares and S. J. M. Peeters and I. M. Pepe and S. Perasso and P. Perrin and P. Pfahler and A. Porta and G. Pronost and J. C. Puras and R. Quéval and J. L. Ramirez and J. Reichenbacher and B. Reinhold and M. Reissfelder and A. Remoto and D. Reyna and I. Rodriguez and M. Röhling and R. Roncin and N. Rudolf and B. Rybolt and Y. Sakamoto and R. Santorelli and F. Sato and U. Schwan and L. Scola and M. Settimo and S. Schönert and S. Schoppmann and L. Scola and M. A. Shaevitz and R. Sharankova and V. Sibille and J. L. Sida and V. Sinev and D. Shrestha and M. Skorokhvatov and P. Soldin and J. Spitz and A. Stahl and I. Stancu and P. Starzynski and M. R. Stock and L. F. F. Stokes and M. Strait and A. Stüken and F. Suekane and S. Sukhotin and T. Sumiyoshi and Y. Sun and Z. Sun and R. Svoboda and H. Tabata and N. Tamura and K. Terao and A. Tonazzo and F. Toral and M. Toups and H. Trinh Thi and F. Valdivia and G. Valdiviesso and N. Vassilopoulos and A. Verdugo and C. Veyssiere and B. Viaud and D. Vignaud and M. Vivier and S. Wagner and C. Wiebusch and B. White and L. Winslow and M. Worcester and M. Wurm and J. Wurtz and G. Yang and J. Yáñez and F. Yermia and K. Zbiri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.13285},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
49 pages, 29 figures