Abstract
The Double Chooz experiment started to take data, with its far detector only, on 13th of April of 2011. This chapter is dedicated to the analysis of these data, which span through 333 days of data taking. The estimation of neutrino events (taking into account the two Chooz nuclear reactors thermal power history), the detector simulation, the event information reconstruction method (mainly energy and position), the neutrino event selection and its efficiency, and the background estimation and measurements, are described here. Moreover, a background dominated sample, taken when the reactors were off, is also discussed.
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Notes
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The name for this MC-based error propagation technique is taken from the MiniBooNE experiment.
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Although the upper OV has been installed recently, it was not operational during the data set used here.
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This is five times the neutron capture time, by Hydrogen in the GC.
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During the preparation of this book, a more detailed analysis, concerning this method, was published [24].
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Junqueira de Castro Bezerra, T. (2015). Double Chooz Data. In: Double Chooz and Reactor Neutrino Oscillation. Springer Theses. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55375-5_4
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