Measuring the neutrino mixing angle theta-13 with the double chooz far detector
| dc.contributor | Piepke, Andreas | |
| dc.contributor | Conrad, Janet | |
| dc.contributor | Stancu, Ion | |
| dc.contributor | Okada, Nobuchika | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Busenitz, Jerome K. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ostrovskiy, Igor | |
| dc.contributor.other | University of Alabama Tuscaloosa | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-01T16:24:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-03-01T16:24:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.description | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The neutrino mixing angle theta-13 is the last one which value is still unknown. This dissertation presents an analysis suggesting a non-zero value of the theta-13. The analysis is based on four months of data taken with the far Double Chooz reactor anti-neutrino detector. Using only rate information yields a best fit value of sin2(2theta-13) equal to 0.0934±0.0785 (1 sigma). Incorporating information on the shape of the signal energy spectrum in the analysis results in a best fit value of 0.0849±0.0509 (1 sigma). Based on frequentist studies, sin2(2theta-13)=0 is excluded at the 92.6% confidence level. The frequentist construction using delta chi-square as an ordering rule gives [0.0098, 0.1825] interval for sin2(2theta-13) at 90% C.L. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 256 p. | |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.other | u0015_0000001_0000831 | |
| dc.identifier.other | Ostrovskiy_alatus_0004D_10978 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/1334 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | University of Alabama Libraries | |
| dc.relation.hasversion | born digital | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | The University of Alabama Electronic Theses and Dissertations | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | The University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections | |
| dc.rights | All rights reserved by the author unless otherwise indicated. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Particle physics | |
| dc.title | Measuring the neutrino mixing angle theta-13 with the double chooz far detector | en_US |
| dc.type | thesis | |
| dc.type | text | |
| etdms.degree.department | University of Alabama. Department of Physics and Astronomy | |
| etdms.degree.discipline | Physics | |
| etdms.degree.grantor | The University of Alabama | |
| etdms.degree.level | doctoral | |
| etdms.degree.name | Ph.D. |
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