CS-IN2P3 20-21 Mars 2006 Thierry Lasserre (CEA/Saclay & APC) Pour la collaboration Double Chooz
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Double Chooz
Optimizing Chooz for a possible Theta 13 measurement
Steven Dazeley (Louisiana State University)NuFact05 Rome
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Introduction
• Quark mixing is small (CKM matrix)
• Lepton mixing is mostly large (PMNS matrix) , except for θ13, which is constrained to be small. The Chooz upper limit on sin2(2θ13) is 0.2
• Why?
• Might help to nail down θ13
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Introduction (e oscillations)
e survival probability can be written as:
P(e e) ≃ 1 – sin2(213) sin2(m213L/4E)
assuming latest measurements of m223,
m212, sin2(223) and sin2(212) from SK, SNO
and KamLAND.
A good reactor 13 reactor disappearance experiment can achieve a clean measurement of 13
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Appearance measurement of 13?
• Naively 13 with an appearance experiment seems easier. However in practice it is difficult to get a “clean” measurement of 13
• Assuming a “normal” mass hierarchy (m1<m2<m3), the e survival probability can be written as:
P( e) ≃ sin2(213) sin 2 (223) sin2(m231L/4E)
∓ sin(213) sinsin(212) sin(223) (m2
31L/4E) sin 2(m231L/4E)
– sin(213) cossin(212) sin(223) (m2
31L/4E) cos(m231L/4E) sin(m2
31L/4E) + cos223 sin2(212) (m2
31L/4E)2
where the ∓ term refers to neutrinos(-) or antineutrinos(+), and m2
12/ m223
• A complicated equation that suffers from parameter correlations and degeneracies. Can’t separate the CP violation phase and 13
• In addition long baseline beam experiments matter effects
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Near site: D~100-200 m, overburden 50-80 mweFar site: D~1.1 km, overburden 300 mwe
Type PWR
Cores 2
Power 8.4 GWth
Couplage 1996/1997
(%, in to 2000) 66, 57
Constructeur Framatome
Opérateur EDF
Chooz-Far
Chooz-Near
Double-Chooz
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Chooz-near
Chooz-far
The Chooz Site
2 x 4200MW Reactors
1100m Baseline300MWE Overburden
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CHOOZ result
Sin22θ13 < 0.19 (at 2.0 x10-3 eV2)
ep→e+n; Neutron/positron coincidence
200 days reactor on; 142 days reactor off
Stopped due to systematic error of reactor flux
Palo Verde
Chooz
SK allowed sin22θ13 (90% CL)
sin22θ13
∆m
2
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Double Chooz Improvements on Chooz• Near detector exact measurement of reactor flux, cancels reactor
systematics • Increase S/N to ~100 (Chooz ~25)
Increase Gd loaded target 2x 95cm non-scintillating buffer region Improved veto
• Non Gd loaded scintillating “gamma catcher” region better energy reconstruction of gammas produced inside target
• Increase detector running time (want > 50000 events, Compare with Chooz ~2700)
• Reactor steady operation (Chooz ran during reactor commissioning phase)
• Stable scintillator (MPI-Heidelberg R+D for LENS)
} Allows lower threshold
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Double-CHOOZ(far) Detector
Gamma catcher: scintillator with no Gd
7 m
7 m
BUFFER Mineral Oil with no scintillator
7 m
Shielding steel and external vessel(studies, réalisation, intégration IN2P3/ PCC)
Target- Gd loaded scintillator
Modular Frame to support photomultipliers
We will start data-taking in 2007with the far detector
Optically separated inner veto to tag muons
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Backgrounds (accidentals)
Accidentals • U, Th, K in detector, allowed concentrations to achieve
accidental rate below 1 s-1: U,Th in scint ~ 10-12 g/gK in scint ~ 10-10 g/gU,Th in acrylic ~ 10-10 g/gK in acrylic ~ 10-8 g/g
• External background (from PMTs mostly). 2 s-1 due to buffer region (Given estimates from Hamamatsu and ETI, measurements from CTF and Monte Carlo studies of buffer thickness)
• Intrinsic n’s due to U, Th in target nint ≃ 0.4 s-1 (CU,Th/10-6), i.e. negligible
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Backgrounds (Correlated)
• 9Li, 8He ( beta-neutron cascades, prompt + capture signature) due to muon spallation has largest uncertainty
• Chooz measured reactor off data 9Li, 8He rate 0.2 /day• Therefore Double Chooz 9Li 8He rate 0.4/day (2x
Chooz)• Uncertainty can be checked by single reactor data
(~30% of the time), better if both reactors off (rare but only need ~2 weeks)
• External Neutrons (prompt + capture) ~1 /day after veto and energy cut (Far detector, MC studies are continuing)
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Systematics
• Goal is systematic uncertainty of 0.6%
CHOOZ Double Chooz
Reactor Cross section 1.9% ------
Number of protons 0.8% 0.2%
Detector efficiency 1.5% 0.5%
Reactor power 0.7% ------
Energy per fission 0.6% ------
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Systematics cont.
• Position ±10cm (Chooz) 0.15% due mainly to near detector
• Volume – Chooz absolute uncertainty 0.3%, Double Chooz aims for 0.15% relative uncertainty Same mobile tank to fill both targets Build both inner acrylic vessels at manufacturer Combine weight and flux measurement of liquid going in
• Density - single scintillator batch + temp control ~0.1% relative uncertainty
• Number H atoms - single batch again
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Systematics cont.• n capture eff. – 0.2% rel. error (AmBe, Cf sources)• Spill in-out effect – cancels for identical detectors
2nd order effect – due to solid angle between near and far detectors and correlation between prompt and neutron capture angle 0.2% error
• 500 keV Prompt e+ E cut – inefficiency ~0.1% (MC) , therefore rel. uncertainty neg.
• Uncertainty on background ±10%. S/N~100 so rel. error small• Selection cuts – reduce number of cuts from 7 (CHOOZ) to 2
(Energy, time) E cut on n capture 6 MeV – ~100 keV error 0.2% error on number of
n’s Time (prompt to delayed) – should be negligible rel. error Dead time – again should be controlled, must be measured very
accurately
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Systematics detailDouble Chooz Goal
Solid angle 0.2%
Volume 0.2%
Density 0.1%
Fraction H atoms 0.1%
Neutron Efficiency 0.2%
Neutron Energy cut 0.2%
Time cut 0.1%
Dead time 0.2%
Acquisition 0.1%
Background 0.2%
Total 0.6%
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Milestones
Detector Construction Can Begin In 2006 Near Laboratory
Finalize designs in 2005Civil construction 2006-7
Data TakingOct 07 Sin2213 > (0.19) with far detector aloneNov 07 Near Detector CompletionDec 08 Sin2213 > ( 0.05) sensitivity - 2 detectorsDec 10 Sin2213 > ( 0.03)
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009Site Data takingProposal Construction ?& design
Far detector starts Near detector starts
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Phototubes
₪Baseline – 1040 8” PMTs in two detectors
₪12.9% photo-cathode coverage
₪190 pe/ MeV (MC)
╬ PMT related backgrounds about MC + radioassay estimates from Hamamatsu, ETI). Also crushed two PMTs to check company estimates, OK
╬ Recent work on• Cabling schemes• Sensitivity to B fields• Angular sensitivity• Tilting tube options• Phototube comparisons
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Outer Veto (Near detector) The Outer Veto provides additional tagging of induced background n’s.
Prototype counters designed/tested
A Fluka simulation of ’s aimed at the near detector is being used to specify needed coverage
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Far detector only
Far & Near detectorstogether
05/2007 05/2008 05/2009 05/2010
sys=2.5%
sys=0.6%
Expected Sensitivity 2007-2012
Far Detector starts in 2007
Near detector follows 16 months later
Double Chooz can surpass the original Chooz bound in 6 months
90% C.L. contour if sin2(213)=0
m2atm = 2.8 10-3 eV2 is
supposed to be known at 20% by MINOS
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Low 13 not theoretically favored
Region of 13 accessibleto Double CHOOZ
1.2.
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Summary• Possibility to measure 13 on a time scale useful
for an accelerator program.• Double Chooz is an evolutionary experiment
with respect to systematic errors.• Experience from a wide variety of experiments,
but particularly Chooz, Palo Verde, KamLAND, LENS & Borexino.
• R&D for larger reactor experiments (scintillator, systematic errors, backgrounds.)
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Extra slides
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Correlated Neutrons from Missed Stopped Muons
R = (1-)R ffc fn
veto efficiency = 0.999R stopped mu rate = 6 and 0.05 Hzf fraction of = 0.44fc capture fraction = 0.079fn fraction neutron = 0.80NEAR: ~15/day
FAR: ~0.2/day
Conservative: assumes stopped muondeposits energy in right range
(signal ~4000/day)
(signal ~85/day)
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Prompt neutron production inside DC
• 5000 h-1 (Near) and 540 h-1 (Far) from comparing CTF, MACRO, LVD results and scaling via E0.75 method.
• Chooz measured rate was 45 h-1 for all tagged neutron-like events (2/0.8)(45)= 113 h-1 in Double Chooz Far.
• 99.9% efficient veto for Far gives 3 d-1 from Chooz measurement.
• Using scaling from Chooz for Near gives ~1150 h-1 (gives ~30 d-1 after 99.9% veto). 300 s veto gets rid of most.
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• Using Reactor Off Data 0.4 9Li event/day at most in Double Chooz FAR. 0.5% of expected signal.
• Chooz 1&2 each spend ~15% of time off in the normal cycle. Almost 1/3 of the time we will have 50% power. History shows that zero power occurs periodically, also.
• 178 ms half-life and low muon rate through Far target gives an opportunity to measure this to required 10% precision
• extrapolation to Near gives ~6/day (0.15% of signal).
Reduced power/Reactor Off for even 1 week sufficient.
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Fast Neutrons
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First Test: Simulation of the original Chooz detector
• Shielding depth: 300 m.w.e
• Muon flux: 0.67 /m2s
•Target volume: 5.6 m3
• Simulated time: 31 hours
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Simulation of the original Chooz detector: Neutron rates
Target Target
(after Veto cut)
Neutron rate /hour
26.3 0.9 0.13 0.06(four events!)
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• The correlated neutron background in the Chooz experiment was simulated, with the most likely value being 0.8 events/day.
• A background rate higher than 1.6 events/day can be excluded at a 90% confidence level.
• Compare to the measured correlated neutron background rate: 1.0 events/day.
• The MC is reliable!
Simulation of the original Chooz detector: Result
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Correlated neutron background in the Double Chooz detector
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Visible energy deposition by neutrons – no muon veto
Shielding = 100 m.w.e. Time = 42.9 h
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Visible energy deposition by neutrons – after muon veto cut
Shielding = 100 m.w.e. Time = 42.9 h
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Visible energy deposition by neutrons – after muon veto cut
Shielding = 100 m.w.e. Time = 42.9 h
Visible energy deposition
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Correlated neutron background in the Double Chooz detector
• 337.729.956 muons tracked (42.92 hours simulated time)
• 1985 hours computer time• 580335 neutrons tracked• 20642 neutrons thermalized in the target• 21 neutrons undetected by muon veto• 1 neutron created a correlated
background event
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Results - 1
• The neutron capture rate in the Gd-loaded target is about 480/hour at 100 mwe
• scaling: 920/hour (Near) and 90/hour (Far)
• from Chooz: 1150/hour (Near); 113/hour (Far)
• Only 0.3 % of these neutrons create a signal in the scintillator within the energy window of 1MeV – 8MeV
• A total correlated background rate > 2 counts/day can be excluded at 98% (for 100 m.w.e. shielding)
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Total Muon Rates
• NEAR: ~600 Hz (flat) ~1100 Hz (hemi) at 60 mwe (proposal 570 Hz)
• FAR: 25 Hz (proposal 24 Hz)
• Stopping ~2 Hz (flat) ~4 Hz (hemi)
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Stopping Muon Rate (10 tons)
Stopping ’s fromWhite Paper: 2 Hz NEAR
DC proposal:3 Hz (flat)
~6 Hz forhemispherical
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Good Agreement
FARWhite Paper:0.03 Hz
DC proposal:0.025
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Correlated Neutrons from Missed Stopped Muons
R = (1-)R ffc fn
veto efficiency = 0.999R stopped mu rate = 6 and 0.05 Hzf fraction of = 0.44fc capture fraction = 0.079fn fraction neutron f.s. = 0.80NEAR: ~15/day
FAR: ~0.2/day
Conservative: assumes stopped muondeposits energy in right range
(signal ~4000/day)
(signal ~85/day)Note: can measure using outer veto and energetic stoppers