THE PALO-VERDE REACTOR NEUTRINO EXPERIMENT A TEST FOR LONG-BASE-LINE NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS

Authors
BOEHM F BUSENITZ J CORNIS J DUGGER M GRATTA G HANSON J HENRIKSON H LAWRENCE D MICHAEL D MILLER L NOVIKOV VM PIEPKE A PITTALWALA S RITCHIE B TRACY D VITAL A VOGEL JP WANG YF WILFERD R WOLF J YOUNG S
Citation
F. Boehm et al., THE PALO-VERDE REACTOR NEUTRINO EXPERIMENT A TEST FOR LONG-BASE-LINE NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS, Nuclear physics. B, Proceedings supplement, 70, 1999, pp. 191-194
Citations number
1
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Particles & Fields
Journal title
Nuclear physics. B, Proceedings supplement → ACNP
ISSN journal
09205632
Volume
70
Year of publication
1999
Pages
191 - 194
Database
ISI
SICI code
0920-5632(1999)70:<191:TPRNEA>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
Our collaboration has installed a long baseline neutrino oscillation e xperiment at the Pale Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona. 12 tons of Gd loaded liquid scintillator, in a segmented detector, are us ed to search for <(nu)over bar> <----> <(nu)over bar> oscillations at 740 m distance to three reactors. The anti-neutrino capture on the pro ton serves as detection reaction. The experiment is expected to reach a sensitivity of Delta m(2) > 1.3 10(-3) eV(2) and sin(2)2- > 0.1. Our range of sensitivity is tuned to test the nu(mu) <----> nu(e), soluti on of the atmospheric neutrino anomaly.