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Exotic V[over-bar][subscript e] -->V[over-bar][subscript slash-e] oscillations in Double Chooz

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G. Duarte, Javier M. (Javier Mauricio Gonzalez Duarte)
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Exotic [upsilon] [over-bar][subscript e] --> [upsilon][over-bar][subscript slash-e] oscillations in Double Chooz
Study of exotic V[over-bar][subscript e] -->V[over-bar][subscript slash-e] oscillations in Double Chooz
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics.
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Janet M. Conrad.
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In this thesis, we estimate the sensitivity of Double Chooz, a reactor Ve --> Ve experiment, to detect "early" neutrino oscillations based on a three-active plus one-sterile, or (3 + 1), neutrino mixing model by implementing a least-squares fit to the simulated electron antineutrino reactor spectrum1 . By comparing the expected spectra from the null hypothesis and the (3 + 1) oscillation hypothesis at the Double Chooz near detector L = 200 m, we expect a modest sterile neutrino discovery potential, limited by the ~ 2% reactor flux uncertainty. This potential may be expanded by employing a Double Chooz-like detector at a very short baseline L = 6 m from the reactor. At both baselines, the p-value for the null hypothesis was extremely small p ~ 0.004, which is compelling evidence for rejecting this hypothesis. Very short baseline antineutrino oscillation reactor experiments may help to resolve the current global incompatibilities between neutrino and antineutrino data sets.
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Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2010.
 
In title on title-page: unable to ascertain meaning of symbols used. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
 
Includes bibliographical references (49-52).
 
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2010
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61255
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Physics.

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