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Uncertainties in the Anti-neutrino Production at Nuclear Reactors

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2009-11-13 v1 Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

Anti-neutrino emission rates from nuclear reactors are determined from thermal power measurements and fission rate calculations. The uncertainties in these quantities for commercial power plants and their impact on the calculated interaction rates in electron anti-neutrino detectors is examined. We discuss reactor-to-reactor correlations between the leading uncertainties and their relevance to reactor anti-neutrino experiments.

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@article{arxiv.0808.0747,
  title  = {Uncertainties in the Anti-neutrino Production at Nuclear Reactors},
  author = {Z. Djurcic and J. A. Detwiler and A. Piepke and V. R. Foster and L. Miller and G. Gratta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.0747},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Submitted to Phys Rev C