Experiment NEUTRINO-4 Search for Sterile Neutrino
Abstract
In order to carry out research in the field of possible existence of a sterile neutrino the laboratory based on SM-3 reactor (Dimitrovgrad, Russia) was created to search for oscillations of reactor antineutrino. A moveable detector, protected with passive shielding from outer radiation, can be set at distance range 6 to 12 meters from the reactor core. Measurements of antineutrino flux at such short distances from the reactor core are carried out with moveable detector for the first time. The main difficulties of the measurements caused by cosmic background and it heavily decreases the precision of measurements. We present the analysis of measurements at small distances together with the data obtained in measurements at long distances in order to obtain parameters of sterile neutrino.
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@article{arxiv.1702.00941,
title = {Experiment NEUTRINO-4 Search for Sterile Neutrino},
author = {A. P. Serebrov and V. G. Ivochkin and R. M. Samoilov and A. K. Fomin and A. O. Polyushkin and V. G. Zinoviev and P. V. Neustroev and V. L. Golovtsov and A. V. Chernyj and O. M. Zherebtsov and V. P. Martemyanov and V. G. Tarasenkov and V. I. Aleshin and A. L. Petelin and A. L. Izhutov and A. A. Tuzov and S. A. Sazontov and D. K. Ryazanov and M. O. Gromov and V. V. Afanasiev and M. E. Zaytsev and M. E. Chaikovskii},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.00941},
year = {2017}
}
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6 pages, 5 figures