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Reactor Neutrino Experiments: $\theta_{13}$ and Beyond

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2014-05-29 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We review the current-generation short-baseline reactor neutrino experiments that have firmly established the third neutrino mixing angle θ13\theta_{13} to be non-zero. The relative large value of θ13\theta_{13} (around 9^\circ) has opened many new and exciting opportunities for future neutrino experiments. Daya Bay experiment with the first measurement of Δmee2\Delta m^2_{ee} is aiming for a precision measurement of this atmospheric mass-squared splitting with a comparable precision as Δmμμ2\Delta m^2_{\mu\mu} from accelerator muon neutrino experiments. JUNO, a next-generation reactor neutrino experiment, is targeting to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy with medium baselines (\sim50 km). Beside these {\color{black} opportunities enabled by the large θ13\theta_{13}}, the current-generation (Daya Bay, Double Chooz, and RENO) and the next-generation (JUNO, RENO-50, and PROSPECT) reactor experiments, with their unprecedented statistics, are also leading the precision era of the 3-flavor neutrino oscillation physics as well as constraining new physics beyond the neutrino Standard Model.

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@article{arxiv.1405.7217,
  title  = {Reactor Neutrino Experiments: $\theta_{13}$ and Beyond},
  author = {X. Qian and W. Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.7217},
  year   = {2014}
}

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brief review for Modern Physics Letter A