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Neutrinos are elementary particles that interact only very weakly with matter. Neutrino experiments are, therefore, usually big, with masses in the multi-tonne range. The thresholdless interaction of coherent elastic scattering of neutrinos…

The proposed Mitchell Institute Neutrino Experiment at Reactor (MINER) experiment at the Nuclear Science Center at Texas A&M University will search for coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering within close proximity (about 2 meters) of…

The Ricochet experiment seeks to measure Coherent (neutral-current) Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering using dark-matter-style detectors with sub-keV thresholds placed near a neutrino source, such as the MIT (research) Reactor (MITR),…

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 this work, we present an analysis of the sensitivity to the active-sterile neutrino mixing with the Indian Scintillator Matrix for Reactor Anti-Neutrino (ISMRAN) experimental set-up at very short baseline. In this article, we have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-22 S. P. Behera , D. K. Mishra , L. M. Pant

RENO (Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation) has made a definitive measurement of the smallest mixing angle theta13 in 2012, based on the disappearance of electron antineutrinos. More precise measurements have been obtained and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-12-11 Soo-Bong Kim

We examine the potential of the future medium-baseline reactor neutrino oscillation (MBRO) experiments in studying neutrino wave-packet impact. In our study, we treat neutrinos as wave packets and use the corresponding neutrino flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Zhaokan Cheng , Wei Wang , Chan Fai Wong , Jingbo Zhang

Future long-baseline neutrino experiments will measure neutrino oscillation properties with unprecedented precision and will search for clear signatures of CP violation in the leptonic sector. Near detectors can measure the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-03 Omar G. Miranda , Guadalupe Moreno-Granados , Celio A. Moura

This study presents a new concept of segmented antineutrino detector based on hexagonal plastic scintillator bars for detecting antineutrinos from a nuclear reactor core. The choice of hexagonal scintillator bars is original and provides…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-18 Mustafa Kandemir , Altan Cakir

We have developed a neutrino detector with threshold energies from ~0.115 to 105 MeV in a clean detection mode almost completely void of accidental backgrounds. It was initially developed for the NASA $\nu$SOL project to put a solar…

The simulation of an experiment on looking for sterile neutrinos at a nuclear reactor at short distances is presented. It has been shown that statistical fluctuations in experimental bins always imitate the oscillatory behavior of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-21 S. V. Silaeva , V. V. Sinev

Increasing the distance from which an antineutrino detector is capable of monitoring the operation of a registered reactor, or discovering a clandestine reactor, strengthens the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty. This paper…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-02-22 Steve Dye

In order to carry out research in the field of possible existence of a sterile neutrino the laboratory based on SM-3 reactor (Dimitrovgrad, Russia) was created to search for oscillations of reactor antineutrino. The prototype of a…

A conceptual scheme of a hybrid-emulsion spectrometer for investigating various channels of neutrino oscillations is proposed. The design emphasizes detection of $\tau$ leptons by detached vertices, reliable identification of electrons, and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 A. E. Asratyan , G. V. Davidenko , A. G. Dolgolenko , V. S. Kaftanov , M. A. Kubantsev , V. S. Verebryusov

We discuss a small-scale experiment, called $\nu$-cleus, for the first detection of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering by probing nuclear-recoil energies down to the 10 eV-regime. The detector consists of low-threshold CaWO$_4$ and…

New antineutrino spectra of fissile isotopes ($^{235}$U, $^{238}$U, $^{239}$Pu and $^{241}$Pu) which are containing in a nuclear reactor fuel have been obtained. A combined technique was used: calculation of antineutrino spectra and their…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-10-04 P. Naumov , S. Silaeva , V. Sinev , A. Vlasenko

Anti-neutrino emission rates from nuclear reactors are determined from thermal power measurements and fission rate calculations. The uncertainties in these quantities for commercial power plants and their impact on the calculated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. Djurcic , J. A. Detwiler , A. Piepke , V. R. Foster , L. Miller , G. Gratta

Neutrinos produced by nuclear reactors have played a major role in advancing our knowledge of the properties of neutrinos. The first direct detection of the neutrino, confirming its existence, was performed using reactor neutrinos. More…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-02-26 Xin Qian , Jen-Chieh Peng

The COHERENT collaboration reports the most precise measurement of the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering cross section to date. This measurement was performed with COHERENT's germanium detector array, Ge-Mini, at the Spallation…