Determination of neutrino incoming direction in the CHOOZ experiment and Supernova explosion location by scintillator detectors

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7 June 1999

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-ex/9906011

Abstract

The CHOOZ experiment measured the antineutrino flux at a distance of about 1 Km from two nuclear reactors in order to detect possible neutrino oscillations with squared mass differences as low as 10**-3 eV**2 for full mixing. We show that the data analysis of the electron antineutrino events, collected by our liquid scintillation detector, locates the antineutrino source within a cone of half-aperture of about 18 degrees at the 68% C.L.. We discuss the implications of this experimental result for tracking down a supernova explosion.

Keywords

SCINTILLATOR DETECTORS
SUPERNOVA EXPLOSION
NEUTRINO INCOMING
CHOOZ EXPERIMENT
SCINTILLATION
DATA ANALYSIS
ANTINEUTRINO

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