Evidence of Antineutrinos from Distant Reactors using Pure Water at SNO+
Nuclear Experiment
2023-03-30 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
The SNO+ Collaboration reports the first evidence of reactor antineutrinos in a Cherenkov detector. The nearest nuclear reactors are located 240~km away in Ontario, Canada. This analysis uses events with energies lower than in any previous analysis with a large water Cherenkov detector. Two analytical methods are used to distinguish reactor antineutrinos from background events in 190 days of data and yield consistent evidence for antineutrinos with a combined significance of 3.5.
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@article{arxiv.2210.14154,
title = {Evidence of Antineutrinos from Distant Reactors using Pure Water at SNO+},
author = {SNO+ Collaboration and : and A. Allega and M. R. Anderson and S. Andringa and J. Antunes and M. Askins and D. J. Auty and A. Bacon and N. Barros and F. Barao and R. Bayes and E. W. Beier and T. S. Bezerra and A. Bialek and S. D. Biller and E. Blucher and E. Caden and E. J. Callaghan and S. Cheng and M. Chen and B. Cleveland and D. Cookman and J. Corning and M. A. Cox and R. Dehghani and J. Deloye and C. Deluce and M. M. Depatie and J. Dittmer and K. H. Dixon and F. Di Lodovico and E. Falk and N. Fatemighomi and R. Ford and K. Frankiewicz and A. Gaur and O. I. Gonzalez-Reina and D. Gooding and C. Grant and J. Grove and A. L. Hallin and D. Hallman and W. J. Heintzelman and R. L. Helmer and J. Hu and R. Hunt-Stokes and S. M. A. Hussain and A. S. Inacio and C. J. Jillings and S. Kaluzienski and T. Kaptanoglu and P. Khaghani and H. Khan and J. R. Klein and L. L. Kormos and B. Krar and C. Kraus and C. B. Krauss and T. Kroupova and I. Lam and B. J. Land and I. Lawson and L. Lebanowski and J. Lee and C. Lefebvre and J. Lidgard and Y. H. Lin and V. Lozza and M. Luo and A. Maio and S. Manecki and J. Maneira and R. D. Martin and N. McCauley and A. B. McDonald and C. Mills and I. Morton-Blake and S. Naugle and L. J. Nolan and H. M. O'Keeffe and G. D. Orebi Gann and J. Page and W. Parker and J. Paton and S. J. M. Peeters and L. Pickard and P. Ravi and A. Reichold and S. Riccetto and R. Richardson and M. Rigan and J. Rose and R. Rosero and J. Rumleskie and I. Semenec and P. Skensved and M. Smiley and R. Svoboda and B. Tam and J. Tseng and E. Turner and S. Valder and C. J. Virtue and E. Vazquez-Jauregui and J. Wang and M. Ward and J. R. Wilson and J. D. Wilson and A. Wright and J. P. Yanez and S. Yang and M. Yeh and S. Yu and Y. Zhang and K. Zuber and A. Zummo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.14154},
year = {2023}
}
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v2: add missing author, add link to supplemental material v3: minor updates to match PRL publication