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Estimation of the signal amplitudes and counting rates for coherent scattering of reactor antineutrino off atomic nuclei in two-phase xenon and argon detectors has been done. A conceptual design of detector based on the existing…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-06-23 Dmitri Akimov , Alexander Bondar , Alexander Burenkov , Alexei Buzulutskov

This paper presents the science potential of a deep ocean antineutrino observatory being developed at Hawaii and elsewhere. The observatory design allows for relocation from one site to another. Positioning the observaory some 60 km distant…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Batygov , S. T. Dye , J. G. Learned , S. Matsuno , S. Pakvasa , G. Varner

Recent measurements of reactor-produced antineutrino fluxes and energy spectra are inconsistent with models based on measured thermal fission beta spectra. In this paper, we examine the dependence of antineutrino production on fission…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 B. R. Littlejohn , A. Conant , D. A. Dwyer , A. Erickson , I. Gustafson , K. Hermanek

The detailed understanding of the antineutrino emission from research reactors is mandatory for any high sensitivity experiments either for fundamental or applied neutrino physics, as well as a good control of the gamma and neutron…

Nuclear fission reactors are abundant sources of antineutrinos. The flux and spectrum of antineutrinos emitted by a reactor can indicate its activity and composition, suggesting potential applications of neutrino measurements beyond…

We propose that reactor experiments could be used to constrain the environment dependence of neutrino mass and mixing parameters, which could be induced due to an acceleron coupling to matter fields. There are several short-baseline reactor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Thomas Schwetz , Walter Winter

J.M. Herndon in 90-s proposed a natural nuclear fission georeactor at the center of the Earth with a power output of 3-10 TW as an energy source to sustain the Earth magnetic field. R.S. Raghavan in 2002 y. pointed out that under certain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Domogatski , V. Kopeikin , L. Mikaelyan , V. Sinev

The RENO experiment has observed the disappearance of reactor electron antineutrinos, consistent with neutrino oscillations, with a significance of 4.9 standard deviations. Antineutrinos from six 2.8 GW$_{th}$ reactors at the Yonggwang…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-11-18 Soo-Bong Kim

The experimental and theoretical research on the physics of massive neutrinos is based on the standard paradigm of three-neutrino mixing, which describes the oscillations of neutrino flavors measured in solar, atmospheric, and long-baseline…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-12-18 Ilham El Atmani

Prospect measurements of neutrino oscillations with reactor neutrinos are reviewed in this document. The following items are described: neutrinos oscillations status, reactor neutrino experimental strategy, impact of uncertainties on the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Anatael Cabrera

In this study, simulation-based design and optimization studies of a gadolinium loaded segmented plastic scintillator detector are presented for monitoring applications of nuclear reactors in Turkey using antineutrinos. For the first time…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-25 Sertac Ozturk

We evaluate the sensitivity of large, gadolinium-doped water detectors to antineutrinos released by nuclear fission explosions, using updated signal and background models and taking advantage of the capacity for seismic observations to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-09-12 Rachel Carr , Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress , Adam Bernstein

We study the time evolution of the typical nuclear reactor antineutrino energy spectrum during reactor ON period and the decay of the residual antineutrino spectrum after reactor is stopped. We find that relevant variations of the soft…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 V. I. Kopeikin , L. A. Mikaelyan , V. V. Sinev

The existence of the coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering reaction requires to evaluate, for any detector devoted to WIMP searches, the irreducible background due to conventional neutrino sources and at same time, it gives a unique chance…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-22 Giovanni De Lellis , Antonia Di Crescenzo , Andrea Gallo Rosso , Valerio Gentile , Francesco Vissani

Neutrino emission from nuclear reactors provides real-time insights into reactor power and fuel evolution, with potential applications in monitoring and nuclear safeguards. Following reactor shutdown, a low-intensity flux of ``residual…

Neutrino-electron scattering can be used to probe neutrino electromagnetic properties at low-threshold underground detectors with good angular and recoil electron energy resolution. We propose to do this using a number of artificial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 O. G. Miranda , J. Segura , V. B. Semikoz , J. W. F. Valle

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

The $\sim 3\sigma$ discrepancy between the predicted and observed reactor anti-neutrino flux, known as the reactor anti-neutrino anomaly, continues to intrigue. The recent discovery of an unexpected bump in the reactor anti-neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-23 Mona Dentler , Álvaro Hernández-Cabezudo , Joachim Kopp , Michele Maltoni , Thomas Schwetz

The RENO experiment has been in operation since August 2011 to measure reactor antineutrino disappearance using identical near and far detectors. For accurate measurements of neutrino mixing parameters and efficient data taking, it is…