Principal Investigator Janet Conrad
Project Website http://doublechooz.in2p3.fr/
An experiment based in France that is searching for the last parameter of the three-neutrino mixing matrix (90% CL sensitivity as a function of year is shown at right). Near detector running starts in 2009.
MIT is contributing to:
(*) Construction of the Outer Veto, along with Barnard, Chicago and Columbia(*) Design and implementation, of the environmental monitoring, along with Kansas State University,(*) Organization of the thermal analysis of the detector.
MIT is also involved in developing the physics case for searches for rare particles using the Double Chooz detector.