The Double Chooz experiment, which will be performed at a commercial nuclear power station near the border between France and Belgium, will search for the last unmeasured angle of the neutrino mixing matrix with an order-of-magnitude better precision than previous experiments. A nonzero value for this mixing angle would open the possibility of searching for CP violation in neutrino oscillations.
The experiment includes two identical detectors, one 400 m from the reactor cores and another 1100 m from the reactor cores. Data taking with the 1100 m ("FAR") detector began in January 2011. Construction of the "NEAR" detector will be completed in mid 2013.
The University of Chicago Double Chooz Group:
Ed Blucher, Emily Conover, Keith Crum,
Elizabeth Pod,
Matt Strait,
Matt Worcester
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