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Rector neutrinos have been a tool to investigate neutrino properties for more than 60 years. The reactor neutrino flux was measured throughout 80s-90s. In the 2000s, reactor neutrino oscillations at large baselines were observed by the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-12-11 Bedrich Roskovec

A next-generation neutrino oscillation experiment using reactor neutrinos could give important information on the size of mixing angle $\theta_{13}$. The motivation and goals for a new reactor measurement are discussed in the context of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-23 M. H. Shaevitz , J. M. Link

The precise knowledge of the atmospheric neutrino fluxes is a key ingredient in the interpretation of the results from any atmospheric neutrino experiment. In the standard atmospheric neutrino data analysis, these fluxes are theoretical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , Michele Maltoni , Joan Rojo

The measurement of the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ opens a gateway for the next generation experiments to measure the neutrino mass hierarchy and the leptonic CP-violating phase. Future reactor experiments will focus on mass…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-10-29 Miao He

Recently new reactor antineutrino spectra have been provided for 235U, 239Pu, 241Pu and 238U, increasing the mean flux by about 3 percent. To good approximation, this reevaluation applies to all reactor neutrino experiments. The synthesis…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-05-12 G. Mention , M. Fechner , Th. Lasserre , Th. A. Mueller , D. Lhuillier , M. Cribier , A. Letourneau

Precisely measuring $\theta_{13}$ is one of the highest priority in neutrino oscillation study. Reactor experiments can cleanly determine $\theta_{13}$. Past reactor neutrino experiments are reviewed and status of next precision…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-12-07 Jun Cao

Knowledge of the neutrino flux produced by the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beamline is essential to the neutrino oscillation and neutrino interaction measurements of the MINERvA, MINOS+, NOvA and MicroBooNE experiments at Fermi…

Uncertainties of fission fraction is an important uncertainty source for the antineutrino flux prediction in a reactor antineutrino experiment. A new MC-based method of evaluating the covariance coefficients between isotopes was proposed.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-01-04 X. B. Ma , R. M. Qiu , Y. X. Chen

The measurement of the last undetermined neutrino mixing angle \theta_{13} is the main goal of the future experimental research on neutrino oscillations. At present, \theta_{13} is only known to be much smaller than the two other mixing…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Dario Motta

In a conventional light water reactor loaded with a range of uranium and plutonium-based fuel mixtures, the variation in antineutrino production over the cycle reflects both the initial core fissile inventory and its evolution. Under the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-01-17 Adam Bernstein , Nathaniel Bowden , Anna Erickson

In this contribution we describe the current understanding of reactor antineutrino fluxes and point out some recent developments. This is not intended to be a complete review of this vast topic but merely a selection of observations and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Patrick Huber

We identify a new, flux-dependent correction to the antineutrino spectrum as produced in nuclear reactors. The abundance of certain nuclides, whose decay chains produce antineutrinos above the threshold for inverse beta decay, has a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-30 Patrick Huber , Patrick Jaffke

Hints for the existence of a sterile neutrino at nuclear reactors are reexamined using two updated predictions for the fluxes of antineutrinos produced in fissions. These new predictions diverge in their preference for the rate deficit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-22 Jeffrey Berryman , Patrick Huber

The interpretation of the nuclear cross sections measured using accelerator neutrino beams involve severe difficulties, arising primarily from the average over the incoming neutrino flux. The broad energy distribution of the beam particles…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-10-12 Omar Benhar

In this document we will review the current status of reactor neutrino oscillation experiments and present their physics potentials for measuring the $\theta_{13}$ neutrino mixing angle. The neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ is currently…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-03-02 C. Mariani

Neutrino Factory is a facility for future precision studies of neutrino oscillations. A so called near detector is essential for reaching the aimed precision of neutrino oscillation analysis. Main task of the near detector is to measure the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-10-11 Rosen Matev , Roumen Tsenov

Accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments have the potential to revolutionise our understanding of fundamental physics, offering an opportunity to characterise charge-parity violation in the lepton section, to determine the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-01-24 S. Dolan

We study the feasibility of using neutrino-electron elastic scattering to measure the neutrino flux in the DUNE neutrino oscillation experiment. The neutrino-electron scattering cross section is precisely known, and the kinematics of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-02-12 Chris M. Marshall , Kevin S. McFarland , Callum Wilkinson

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

We present the systematic-error study of the neutrino flux in the NO{\nu}A experiment. Systematic errors on the flux at the near detector (ND), far detector (FD), and the ratio FD/ND, due to the beam-transport and hadro-production are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-11-03 Kuldeep Kaur Maan , Hongyue Duyang , Sanjib Ratan Mishra , Vipin Bhatnagar