Ortho-positronium observation in the Double Chooz experiment
| dc.contributor.author | Double Chooz collaboration | |
| dc.contributor.author | Spitz, Joshua B. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Winslow, Lindley | |
| dc.contributor.author | Conrad, Janet Marie | |
| dc.contributor.author | Terao, Kazuhiro | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-01-15T16:33:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-01-15T16:33:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-10 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2014-09 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1029-8479 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1126-6708 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92880 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The Double Chooz experiment measures the neutrino mixing angle θ13 by detecting reactor ν¯e via inverse beta decay. The positron-neutron space and time coincidence allows for a sizable background rejection, nonetheless liquid scintillator detectors would profit from a positron/electron discrimination, if feasible in large detector, to suppress the remaining background. Standard particle identification, based on particle dependent time profile of photon emission in liquid scintillator, can not be used given the identical mass of the two particles. However, the positron annihilation is sometimes delayed by the ortho-positronium (o-Ps) metastable state formation, which induces a pulse shape distortion that could be used for positron identification. In this paper we report on the first observation of positronium formation in a large liquid scintillator detector based on pulse shape analysis of single events. The o-Ps formation fraction and its lifetime were measured, finding the values of 44% ± 12% (sys.) ± 5% (stat.) and 3.68ns ± 0.17ns (sys.) ± 0.15ns (stat.) respectively, in agreement with the results obtained with a dedicated positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy setup. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation (U.S.) | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | United States. Dept. of Energy | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg | en_US |
| dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2014)032 | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_US |
| dc.source | Springer-Verlag | en_US |
| dc.title | Ortho-positronium observation in the Double Chooz experiment | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Abe, Y., J. C. dos Anjos, J. C. Barriere, E. Baussan, I. Bekman, M. Bergevin, T. J. C. Bezerra, et al. “Ortho-Positronium Observation in the Double Chooz Experiment.” J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, no. 10 (October 2014). | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science | en_US |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Conrad, Janet | en_US |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Spitz, Joshua B. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Terao, K. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Winslow, Lindley | en_US |
| dc.relation.journal | Journal of High Energy Physics | en_US |
| dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en_US |
| dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
| eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
| dspace.orderedauthors | Abe, Y.; dos Anjos, J. C.; Barriere, J. C.; Baussan, E.; Bekman, I.; Bergevin, M.; Bezerra, T. J. C.; Bezrukov, L.; Blucher, E.; Buck, C.; Busenitz, J.; Cabrera, A.; Caden, E.; Camilleri, L.; Carr, R.; Cerrada, M.; Chang, P.-J.; Chauveau, E.; Chimenti, P.; Collin, A. P.; Conover, E.; Conrad, J. M.; Crespo-Anadón, J. I.; Crum, K.; Cucoanes, A. S.; Damon, E.; Dawson, J. V.; Dhooghe, J.; Dietrich, D.; Djurcic, Z.; Dracos, M.; Elnimr, M.; Etenko, A.; Fallot, M.; von Feilitzsch, F.; Felde, J.; Fernandes, S. M.; Fischer, V.; Franco, D.; Franke, M.; Furuta, H.; Gil-Botella, I.; Giot, L.; Göger-Neff, M.; Gonzalez, L. F. G.; Goodenough, L.; Goodman, M. C.; Grant, C.; Haag, N.; Hara, T.; Haser, J.; Hofmann, M.; Horton-Smith, G. A.; Hourlier, A.; Ishitsuka, M.; Jochum, J.; Jollet, C.; Kaether, F.; Kalousis, L. N.; Kamyshkov, Y.; Kaplan, D. M.; Kawasaki, T.; Kemp, E.; de Kerret, H.; Kryn, D.; Kuze, M.; Lachenmaier, T.; Lane, C. E.; Lasserre, T.; Letourneau, A.; Lhuillier, D.; Lima, H. P.; Lindner, M.; López-Castaño, J. M.; LoSecco, J. M.; Lubsandorzhiev, B.; Lucht, S.; Maeda, J.; Mariani, C.; Maricic, J.; Martino, J.; Matsubara, T.; Mention, G.; Meregaglia, A.; Miletic, T.; Milincic, R.; Minotti, A.; Nagasaka, Y.; Nikitenko, Y.; Novella, P.; Oberauer, L.; Obolensky, M.; Onillon, A.; Osborn, A.; Palomares, C.; Pepe, I. M.; Perasso, S.; Pfahler, P.; Porta, A.; Pronost, G.; Reichenbacher, J.; Reinhold, B.; Röhling, M.; Roncin, R.; Roth, S.; Rybolt, B.; Sakamoto, Y.; Santorelli, R.; Schilithz, A. C.; Schönert, S.; Schoppmann, S.; Shaevitz, M. H.; Sharankova, R.; Shimojima, S.; Shrestha, D.; Sibille, V.; Sinev, V.; Skorokhvatov, M.; Smith, E.; Spitz, J.; Stahl, A.; Stancu, I.; Stokes, L. F. F.; Strait, M.; Stüken, A.; Suekane, F.; Sukhotin, S.; Sumiyoshi, T.; Sun, Y.; Svoboda, R.; Terao, K.; Tonazzo, A.; Trinh Thi, H. H.; Valdiviesso, G.; Vassilopoulos, N.; Veyssiere, C.; Vivier, M.; Wagner, S.; Walsh, N.; Watanabe, H.; Wiebusch, C.; Winslow, L.; Wurm, M.; Yang, G.; Yermia, F.; Zimmer, V. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9970-108X | |
| dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6393-0438 | |
| mit.license | PUBLISHER_CC | en_US |
| mit.metadata.status | Complete |
