The Double Chooz experiment will use electron antineutrinos produced by the Chooz nuclear power station to search for a non-vanishing value of the θ_(13) neutrino mixing angle. Double Chooz will be the first in a series of new generation reactor neutrino experiments using identical detectors at different distances from the neutrino source to reduce the systematic error due to uncertainties of the neutrino flux and the detector acceptance. The far detector is expected to be operative by the beginning of 2010. Installation of the near detector will follow and is expected to be completed by the beginning of 2011.
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