As successor of the reactor disappearance experiment CHOOZ, Double Chooz will use two identical detectors with improved design, each of them filled with 4 different detector liquids. The integrity of this multi-layered structure and the quality of the used detector liquids are essential for the success of the experiment. The here presented work describes the production of two detector liquids, the filling and handling of the DC-far detector and the installation of all necessary hardware components therefore. Using these systems, the DC-far-detector was successfully filled and able to acquire first experimental data. The analysis of these data demonstrated the quality of the produced liquids, the integrity of the detector vessels and in general the excellent performance of the detector, which only recently allowed to discover a non-zero value for the last neutrino mixing angle ϴ13.
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As successor of the reactor disappearance experiment CHOOZ, Double Chooz will use two identical detectors with improved design, each of them filled with 4 different detector liquids. The integrity of this multi-layered structure and the quality of the used detector liquids are essential for the success of the experiment. The here presented work describes the production of two detector liquids, the filling and handling of the DC-far detector and the installation of all necessary hardware componen...
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