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The Palo Verde reactor neutrino experiment a test for long baseline neutrino oscillations

1999; Elsevier BV; Volume: 70; Issue: 1-3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0920-5632(98)00413-7

1873-3832

F. Boehm, J. Busenitz, J. Cornis, M. Dugger, G. Gratta, J. Hanson, H. Henrikson, David Lawrence, D. Michael, L. S. Miller, В. М. Новіков, A. Piepke, S. Pittalwala, B. G. Ritchie, D. Tracy, A. Vital, J.P. Vogel, Y.F. Wang, R. Wilferd, J. Wolf, S. Young,

Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena

Our collaboration has installed a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona. 12 tons of Gd loaded liquid scintillator, in a segmented detector, are used to search for νe ↔ νx oscillations at 740 m distance to three reactors. The anti-neutrino capture on the proton serves as detection reaction. The experiment is expected to reach a sensitivity of Δm2 > 1.3 · 10−3 eV2 and sin22Θ > 0.1. Our range of sensitivity is tuned to test the νμ ↔ νe solution of the atmospheric neutrino anomaly.