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

双Chooz中微子实验将尝试测量-13中微子混合角，通过对位于法国Chooz两个核反应堆堆芯附近的一对中微子探测器的数据进行非常精确的比较。这个混合角对于测量中微子扇区的CP违逆具有重要意义，它可能会揭示宇宙中物质主导的来源。该合同为前端电子系统（FEE）提供资金，该系统对双Chooz近距离探测器的操作至关重要。FEE由德雷塞尔大学设计，并得到LLNL的工程支持。建设将在德雷克塞尔开始，本科生将参与性能测试、安装和最终认证。德雷克塞尔大学将与附近的罗文大学合作，让他们的本科生参与到FEE的工作中来，为他们提供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，用于确定反应堆的同位素组成，并提供燃料燃烧的独立测量，这种能力可以在不扩散监测和提高反应堆燃料的能量产量方面得到应用。正是在中微子探测器精度方面的改进（部分由本提案解决）将使中微子探测器的实际应用成为可能。德雷塞尔大学和罗文大学将聘请兼职本科生，与一名媒体艺术系学生和一名物理系学生合作，制作与中微子相互作用和探测有关的视频内容。这些新内容将被添加到德雷克塞尔大学网站上的“每个人的中微子双重选择”中。

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.