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Comment on "Observation of electron-antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay"

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-05-01 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

In recent Letter by An et al. [arXiv:1203.1669] Daya Bay measurements of non-zero value for the neutrino mixing angle {\theta}_{13} with a significance of 5.2 standard deviations were reported. The value of sin^2 {\theta}_{13} was determined with a {\chi}^2 constructed with pull terms accounting for the correlation of the systematic errors. We show that a direct applying of the KamLAND parameters of mixing to Daya Bay-experiment under nonequilibrium geoneutrino spectrum of the nuclear burning process within the framework of nonzero nuclear georeactor {\chi}^2 -hypothesis will produce a high uncertainty level and, as a result, a substantial distortion of the actual value of the neutrino mixing angle {\theta}_{13}.

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@article{arxiv.1204.5974,
  title  = {Comment on "Observation of electron-antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay"},
  author = {V. D. Rusov and V. A. Tarasov and S. A. Chernegenko and V. P. Smolyar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.5974},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

2 pages, 1 figure (v2: a misprint in equation (1) corrected)