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Past Reactor Experiments (Some Lessons From History) Stuart Freedman University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Workshop on the feasibility study of the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment Jan. 17-18, 2004 in IHEP, Beijing

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Page 1: Past Reactor Experiments (Some Lessons From History) Stuart Freedman University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Workshop

Past Reactor Experiments(Some Lessons From History)

Stuart FreedmanUniversity of California at Berkeley

andLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Workshop on the feasibility study of

the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment

Jan. 17-18, 2004 in IHEP, Beijing

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Enrico Fermi

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Inverse Beta Decay Cross Section and Spectrum

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The first proposal for a neutrino experiment didn’t use a reactor

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Poltergeist: the largest scintillator in the world

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Neutrino Spectra from Principal Reactor Isotopes

235U fission

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First Direct Detection of the Neutrino

νe +p→ e+ +n

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Backgrounds!

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Poltergeist1m

KamLAND20 m

Chooz4 m

Long Baseline Reactor Neutrino Experiments

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Correlated Backgrounds from External Neutrons

Palo Verde

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Spallation Produced Radio-Isotopes in Liquid Scintillator

Isotope t1/2 Emax

(MeV)Background

- 12B 0.02 s 13.4 Uncorrelated11Be 13.80 s 11.5 Uncorrelated11Li 0.09 s 20.8 Correlated9Li 0.18 s 13.6 Correlated8Li 0.84 s 16.0 Uncorrelated

8He 0.12 s 10.6 Correlated6He 0.81 s 3.5 Uncorrelated

+, EC 11C 20.38 m 0.96 Uncorrelated10C 19.30 s 1.9 Uncorrelated9C 0.13 s 16.0 Uncorrelated8B 0.77 s 13.7 Uncorrelated

7Be 53.3 d 0.48 Uncorrelated

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Bugey

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Gosgen

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Palo Verde

• 32 mwe

• 12 ton, Gd loaded, scintillating target

• 3 reactors: 11.6 GW

• Baselines 890 m and 750 m

• Expected rate of ~50 evts/day

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Palo Verde

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Chooz

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Underground Vault for Chooz

• 5 ton, Gd loaded, scintillating target

• 300 mwe

• 2 reactors: 8.5 GWl

• Baselines 1115 m and 998 m

• Expected ~25 evts/day

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CHOOZ

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Chooz

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KamLANDKamioka Liquid-Scintillator Anti-Neutrino Detector

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KamLAND Underground Laboratory

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from 12C(n, )

cap = 188 +/- 23 sec

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reactor neutrinos geo neutrinos background

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Prompt Energy (MeV)

2.6 MeVanalysis threshold

KamLAND data no oscillation best-fit oscillation

sin22θ = 1.0 Δm2= 6.9 10x -5 eV2

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%Total LS mass 2.1Fiducial mass ratio 4.1Energy threshold 2.1Tagging efficiency 2.1Live time 0.07Reactor power 2.0Fuel composition 1.0Time lag 0.28e spectra 2.5

Cross section 0.2

Total uncertainty 6.4 %

Systematic Uncertainties

E > 2.6 MeV

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ReactorDetector 1Detector 2

d2

d1

Experimental Design

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Reactor θ13

USA

FranceRussia

Japan

China

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