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The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment, PROSPECT, was a segmented antineutrino detector that successfully operated at the High Flux Isotope Reactor in Oak Ridge, TN, during its 2018 run. Despite challenges with…

The PROSPECT and STEREO collaborations present a combined measurement of the pure $^{235}$U antineutrino spectrum, without site specific corrections or detector-dependent effects. The spectral measurements of the two highest precision…

We present a review of the antineutrino spectra emitted from reactors. Knowledge of these and their associated uncertainties are crucial for neutrino oscillation studies. The spectra used to-date have been determined by either conversion of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 A. C. Hayes , Petr Vogel

In this work we present an accurate parameterization of the anti-neutrino flux produced by the isotopes 235U, 239Pu and 241Pu in nuclear reactors. We determine the coefficients of this parameterization, as well as their covariance matrix,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick Huber , Thomas Schwetz

Cubic-meter-sized antineutrino detectors can be used to non-intrusively, robustly and automatically monitor and safeguard a wide variety of nuclear reactor types, including power reactors, research reactors, and plutonium production…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 Adam Bernstein , Yifang Wang , Giorgio Gratta , Todd West

Nuclear reactors have long been a favored source for antineutrino measurements for estimates of power and burnup. With appropriate detector parameters and background rejection, an estimate of the reactor power can be derived from the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-03 Emma Houston , Oluwatomi Akindele , Marc Bergevin , Adam Bernstein , Steven Dazley , Sandra Bogetic

The spectral shape of reactor antineutrinos measured in recent experiments shows anomalies in comparison to neutrino reference spectra. New precision measurements of the reactor neutrino spectra as well as more complete input in nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-12-22 Christian Buck , Antoine P. Collin , Julia Haser , Manfred Lindner

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 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

In 2011, a re-evaluation of the antineutrino spectrum emitted by nuclear reactors revealed a 6% deficit between the observed flux and the expected one. This anomaly is significant at 2.9$\sigma$ and can be explained by a new oscillation at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-02-02 Stéphane Zsoldos

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

Short distance reactor antineutrino experiments measure an antineutrino spectrum a few percent lower than expected from theoretical predictions. In this work we study the potential of low energy threshold reactor experiments in the context…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-20 B. C. Cañas , E. A. Garcés , O. G. Miranda , A. Parada

The status of neutrino oscillation searches employing nuclear reactors as sources is reviewed. This technique, a direct continuation of the experiments that proved the existence of neutrinos, is today an essential tool in investigating the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlo Bemporad , Giorgio Gratta , Petr Vogel

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

In this letter we report the first scientific result based on antineutrinos emitted from the BR2 reactor at SCK CEN. The SoLid experiment uses a novel type of highly granular detector whose basic detection unit combines two scintillators,…

According to different effects on neutrino oscillations, the unitarity violation in the MNSP matrix can be classified into the direct unitarity violation and the indirect unitarity violation which are induced by the existence of the light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-09 Shu Luo

The sensitivity to New Physics of a low threshold scintillating argon bubble chamber measuring coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering in reactors is reported. Namely, light scalar mediators, sterile neutrino oscillations, unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 E. Alfonso-Pita , L. J. Flores , Eduardo Peinado , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui

The RENO experiment reports measured flux and energy spectrum of reactor electron antineutrinos\,($\overline{\nu}_e$) from the six reactors at Hanbit Nuclear Power Plant. The measurements use 966\,094\,(116\,111)\,$\overline{\nu}_e$…

We study the effect of naval nuclear reactors on the study of neutrino oscillations. We find that the presence of naval reactors at unknown locations and times may limit the accuracy of future very long baseline reactor-based neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Detwiler , G. Gratta , N. Tolich , Y. Uchida