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Nuclear reactors are strong, pure and well localized sources of electron antineutrinos with energies in the few MeV range. Therefore they provide a suitable environment to study neutrino properties, in particular neutrino oscillation…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-05-01 Christian Buck

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)\,$\overline{\nu}_e$…

Reactor neutrinos play a substantial role in the study of the fundamental properties of neutrinos. With current and upcoming precision experiments, it is essential more than ever to understand the reactor neutrino flux and spectrum.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-04-03 Bedrich Roskovec

The direct measuring method is considered to get nuclear reactor antineutrino spectrum. We suppose to isolate partial spectra of the fissile isotopes by using the method of antineutrino spectrum extraction from the inverse beta decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-24 V. V. Sinev

Reactor antineutrino experiments have the ability to search for neutrino oscillations independent of reactor flux predictions using a relative measurement of the neutrino flux and spectrum across a range of baselines. The range of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-07-11 K. M. Heeger , B. R. Littlejohn , H. P. Mumm

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

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

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

Recent studies of atmospheric neutrinos and the results from CHOOZ and Palo-Verde experiment call for new and more sensitive searches for neutrino oscillations at reactors. The main goal of the project considered here is to look for very…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Mikaelyan

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

Despite the dramatic progress made in neutrino oscillation studies recently, several fundamental neutrino parameters remain either unknown or poorly measured. We discuss in detail a method for their measurement by precision studies of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-08 Mikhail Batygov , Stephen Dye , John Learned , Shigenobu Matsuno , Sandip Pakvasa , Gary Varner

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

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

Search for a light sterile neutrino is currently a hot topic of neutrino physics, arising from the so-called gallium and reactor anomalies, in which a deficit of neutrinos was observed with respect to expectations. Such anomalies could be…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-03 V. Hélaine

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…

Positron spectrum from inverse beta decay reaction on proton was measured in 1988-1990 as a result of neutrino exploration experiment. The measured spectrum has the largest statistics and lowest energy threshold between other neutrino…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-07-31 V. Sinev