COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Systems for Precise Neutrino Detection with the Double Chooz Detectors

合作研究：使用 Double Chooz 探测器进行精确中微子探测的系统

• 批准号: 1002427
• 负责人: Charles Lane
• 金额: $ 24.5万
• 依托单位: Drexel University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1002427&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: COLLABORATIVE; RESEARCH; Systems; Precise; Neutrino

The Double Chooz neutrino experiment will attempt to measure the theta-13 neutrino mixing angle using a very precise comparison of data from a pair of neutrino detectors located near two nuclear reactor cores at Chooz, France. This mixing angle is significant for measurements of CP violation in the neutrino sector, which may shed light on the source of matter-dominance in the Universe. This award provides funding for a Front-End Electronics (FEE) system that is critical for the operation of the Double Chooz Near detector. The FEE has been designed at Drexel University, with engineering support from LLNL. Construction will be started at Drexel, with a significant contribution of undergraduate student participation, in the performance testing, installation and final certification. Drexel will partner with nearby Rowan University to involve their undergraduates in the FEE effort, providing them with a physics research experience to which they normally would not have access. Among the Broader Impacts, Double Chooz has the potential to be a very precise neutrino detector for determining reactor isotope composition and giving an independent measure of fuel burn-up, capabilities that could find application in non-proliferation monitoring and improving the energy yield of reactor fuel. It is the improvements in neutrino detector precision, addressed in part by this proposal, that will make such practical applications of neutrino detectors possible. Part-time undergraduates will be hired at Drexel and at Rowan, partnering a Media Arts student with a physics student, to create video content related to neutrino interactions and detection. This new content will be added to and integrated with the "Neutrinos at Double Chooz for Everyone" on a website at Drexel.

Double Chooz 中微子实验将尝试通过非常精确地比较位于法国 Chooz 两个核反应堆堆芯附近的一对中微子探测器的数据来测量 theta-13 中微子混合角。这种混合角对于测量中微子扇区的CP破坏具有重要意义，这可能有助于揭示宇宙中物质主导的来源。该奖项为前端电子 (FEE) 系统提供资金，该系统对于 Double Chooz Near 探测器的运行至关重要。 FEE 是在德雷塞尔大学设计的，并得到了 LLNL 的工程支持。施工将在德雷克塞尔开始，本科生的参与对性能测试、安装和最终认证做出了重大贡献。德雷塞尔大学将与附近的罗文大学合作，让他们的本科生参与 FEE 项目，为他们提供他们通常无法获得的物理研究经验。在更广泛的影响中，Double Chooz 有潜力成为一种非常精确的中微子探测器，用于确定反应堆同位素成分并提供燃料燃耗的独立测量，其功能可应用于防扩散监测和提高反应堆的能量产量燃料。该提案部分解决了中微子探测器精度的提高，这将使中微子探测器的实际应用成为可能。德雷克塞尔大学和罗文大学将聘用兼职本科生，让一名媒体艺术学生和一名物理学学生合作，制作与中微子相互作用和检测相关的视频内容。这些新内容将被添加到德雷克塞尔网站上的“中微子在 Double Chooz forEverybody”中并与之集成。