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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

We discuss reactor antineutrino oscillations with non-standard interactions (NSIs) at the neutrino production and detection processes. The neutrino oscillation probability is calculated with a parametrization of the NSI parameters by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-23 Yu-Feng Li , Ye-Ling Zhou

In connection with the question of possible existence of sterile neutrino the laboratory on the basis of SM-3 reactor was created to search for oscillations of reactor antineutrino. A prototype of a neutrino detector with scintillator…

We review the current status of the solar neutrino oscillation parameters. We discuss the conditions under which measurements from future solar neutrino experiments would determine the oscillation parameters precisely. Finally we expound…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sandhya Choubey

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

Neutrinos are elementary particles in the standard model of particle physics. There are 3 flavors of neutrinos that oscillate among themselves. Their oscillation can be described by a 3$\times$3 unitary matrix, containing three mixing…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-19 Haoqi Lu

Searches for mass-3 component in the electron neutrino flavor state $\sin{\theta}_{13}$ and for sterile neutrinos can be carried out in the same small mixing angle antineutrino oscillation experiment at a reactor. As an example we consider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Kopeikin , L. Mikaelyan , V. Sinev

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

In the past decades, short baseline neutrino oscillation studies around experimental or commercial reactor cores have revealed two anomalies. The first one is linked to the absolute flux and the second one to the spectral shape. The first…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-05-29 Laura Bernard

The experiment "Neutrino-4" started in 2014 on a model, then it was continued on a full-scale detector, and now, has provided the measurement result on dependence of the flux and spectrum of reactor antineutrinos on the distance of 6 - 12…

Nuclear power reactors are the most intense man-made source of antineutrino's and have long been recognized as promising sources for coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) studies. Its observation and the spectral shape of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-25 Leendert Hayen

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

Originally designed as a new nuclear reactor monitoring device, the Nucifer detector has successfully detected its first neutrinos. We provide the second shortest baseline measurement of the reactor neutrino flux. The detection of electron…

Antineutrinos from nuclear reactors have the potential to be used for reactor monitoring in the mid- to far-field under certain conditions. Antineutrinos are an unshieldable signal and carry information about the reactor core and the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-02 Steve T. Wilson , Chris Cotsford , James Armitage , Niamh Holland , Matthew Malek , John. G. Learned

A conceptual experimental method for providing a new measurement of the underlying beta decay spectra from fission products is presented. The goal is to provide additional information related to the prediction of the antineutrino emission…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-04-16 D. Asner , K. A. Burns , B. Greenfield , M. S. Kos , J. L. Orrell , M. Schram , B. A. VanDevender , D. Wootan

Recent measurements of the positron energy spectrum obtained from inverse beta decay interactions of reactor electron antineutrinos show an excess in the 4 to 6 MeV region relative to current predictions. First-principle calculations of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-01-14 D. A. Dwyer , T. J. Langford

The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment (PROSPECT) performs a precision measurement of reactor antineutrinos through inverse beta decay at a baseline range of 7-9 m from the core of the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR).…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-11-05 Olga Kyzylova

We discuss the possibility of forecasting earthquakes by means of (anti)neutrino tomography. Antineutrinos emitted from reactors are used as a probe. As the antineutrinos traverse through a region prone to earthquakes, observable variations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-18 Bin Wang , Ya-Zheng Chen , Xue-Qian Li