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The STEREO experiment is designed to test the hypothesis of light sterile neutrinos being the cause of the Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly. It measures the antineutrino energy spectrum from the compact core of the ILL research reactor in six…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-09-04 Stefan Schoppmann

The SNO+ Collaboration reports new results on reactor antineutrino oscillations using data acquired from May 2022 through July 2025. The spectral analysis of a flux dominated by nuclear reactors at 240, 350, and 355 kilometers yields the…

Every second greater than $10^{25}$ antineutrinos radiate to space from Earth, shining like a faint antineutrino star. Underground antineutrino detectors have revealed the rapidly decaying fission products inside nuclear reactors, verified…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-02-04 Shawn M. Usman , Glenn R. Jocher , Stephen T. Dye , William F. McDonough , John G. Learned

This paper presents experimental requirements to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy using reactor neutrinos. The detector shall be located at a baseline around 58 km from the reactor(s) to measure the energy spectrum of electron…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-06 Liang Zhan , Yifang Wang , Jun Cao , Liangjian Wen

Liquid scintillator detectors are playing an increasingly important role in low-energy neutrino experiments. In this article, we describe a generic energy response model of liquid scintillator detectors that provides energy estimations of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-18 Logan Lebanowski , Linyan Wan , Xiangpan Ji , Zhe Wang , Shaomin Chen

The result of the 3-year neutrino magnetic moment measurement at the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant with the GEMMA spectrometer is presented. Antineutrino-electron scattering is investigated. A high-purity germanium detector of 1.5 kg placed…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-11-26 A. G. Beda , V. B. Brudanin , E. V. Demidova , V. G. Egorov , D. V. Medvedev , M. V. Shirchenko , A. S. Starostin , Ts. Vylov

Neutrino oscillation experiments require a precise measurement of the neutrino energy. However, the kinematic detection of the final-state neutron in the neutrino interaction is missing in current neutrino oscillation experiments. The…

Highly coherent mechanical resonators are invaluable to ultrasensitive detection techniques by enabling detection of small forces. Studying mechanical resonators in a thermal equilibrium state at millikelvin temperatures provides a…

I discuss the sensitivity of future medium baseline reactor antineutrino experiments on the neutrino mass hierarchy. By using the standard chi^2 analysis, we find that the sensitivity depends strongly on the baseline length L and the energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-01 Yoshitaro Takaesu

In May 2011, the IceCube neutrino observatory with one cubic kilometer instrumented volume started full operation with 5160 sensors on 86 strings and 324 sensors on 162 IceTop detectors. The fine-tuning of operation and calibration of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 A. Karle

Fission explosions produce large numbers of antineutrinos. It is occasionally asked whether this distinctive, unshieldable emission could help reveal clandestine nuclear weapon explosions. The practical challenge encountered is that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-07 Michael Foxe , Theodore Bowyer , Rachel Carr , John Orrell , Brent VanDevender

The direct measuring method is considered to get nuclear reactor antineutrino spectrum. We suppose to isolate partial spectra of the fissile isotopes by using the method of antineutrino spectrum extraction from the inverse beta decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-24 V. V. Sinev

In this paper we describe the development and first tests of a neutron spectrometer designed for high flux environments, such as the ones found in fast nuclear reactors. The spectrometer is based on the conversion of neutrons impinging on…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 M. Osipenko , M. Ripani , G. Ricco , B. Caiffi , F. Pompili , M. Pillon , M. Angelone , G. Verona-Rinati , R. Cardarelli , G. Mila , S. Argiro

The TEXONO collaboration has been built up among scientists from Taiwan and China to pursue an experimental program in neutrino and astro-particle physics. The flagship efforts have been the study of low energy neutrino physics at the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 H. T. Wong

We report a measurement of the antineutrino rate from the fission of U-235 with the STEREO detector using 119 days of reactor turned on. In our analysis, we perform several detailed corrections and achieve the most precise single…

IceCube was completed in December 2010. It forms a lattice of 5160 photomultiplier tubes that monitor a volume of ~ 1 cubic km in the deep Antarctic ice for particle induced photons. The telescope was designed to detect neutrinos with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Lutz Köpke

Progress in nuclear physics is driven by the experimental observation that requires state of the art detectors to measure various kinematic properties, such as energy, momentum, position etc. of the particles produced in a nuclear reaction.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-01-08 T. K. Ghosh

The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has measured a non-zero value for the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ with a significance of 5.2 standard deviations. Antineutrinos from six 2.9 GW$_{\rm th}$ reactors were detected in six…

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The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, which instruments 1$\,$km$^3$ of clear ice at the geographic South Pole, was mainly designed to detect particles with energies in the multi-GeV to PeV range. Due to ice temperatures between $-20^\circ$C to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Robert Cross , Alexander Fritz , Spencer Griswold

The PROSPECT-I detector has several features that enable measurement of the direction of a compact neutrino source. In this paper, a detailed report on the directional measurements made on electron antineutrinos emitted from the High Flux…