RENO for neutrino mixing angle

✍ Scribed by Soo-Bong Kim

• Book ID: 104089514
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 225 KB
• Volume: 64
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0146-6410
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ppnp.2009.12.045

✦ Synopsis

The RENO (Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation) experiment is under construction to measure the value of the smallest and unknown neutrino mixing angle θ 13 . The experiment will compare the measured fluxes of electron antineutrinos at two detectors located at 290 m and 1.4 km distances from the center of the Yonggwang nuclear reactors in Korea. The detectors are near completion, and data-taking is expected to start in mid 2010. The estimated systematic uncertainty associated with the measurement is less than 0.6%, and the expected statistical error is about 0.3%. With three years of data, the experiment will search for mixing angle values of sin 2 2θ 13 down to 0.02 in the 90% C.L. limit. In this review, the construction status is presented.