The STEREO Experiment
Instrumentation and Detectors
2018-08-15 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
The STEREO experiment is a very short baseline reactor antineutrino experiment aiming at testing the hypothesis of light sterile neutrinos as an explanation of the deficit of the observed neutrino interaction rate with respect to the predicted rate, known as the Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly. The detector center is located 10 m away from the compact, highly U enriched core of the research nuclear reactor of the Institut Laue Langevin in Grenoble, France. This paper describes the STEREO site, the detector components and associated shielding designed to suppress the external sources of background which were characterized on site. It reports the performances in terms of detector response and energy reconstruction.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1804.09052,
title = {The STEREO Experiment},
author = {N. Allemandou and H. Almazán and P. del Amo Sanchez and L. Bernard and C. Bernard and A. Blanchet and A. Bonhomme and G. Bosson and O. Bourrion and J. Bouvier and C. Buck and V. Caillot and M. Chala and P. Champion and P. Charon and A. Collin and P. Contrepois and G. Coulloux and B. Desbrières and G. Deleglise and W. El Kanawati and J. Favier and S. Fuard and I. Gomes Monteiro and B. Gramlich and J. Haser and V. Helaine and M. Heusch and M. Jentschel and F. Kandzia and G. Konrad and U. Köster and S. Kox and C. Lahonde-Hamdoun and J. Lamblin and A. Letourneau and D. Lhuillier and C. Li and M. Lindner and L. Manzanillas and T. Materna and O. Méplan and A. Minotti and C. Monon and F. Montanet and F. Nunio and F. Peltier and Y. Penichot and M. Pequignot and H. Pessard and Y. Piret and G. Prono and G. Quéméner and J. -S. Real and C. Roca and T. Salagnac and V. Sergeyeva and S. Schoppmann and L. Scola and J. -P. Scordilis and T. Soldner and A. Stutz and D. Tourres and C. Vescovi and S. Zsoldos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.09052},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
32 pages, 17 figures