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The experiment Neutrino-4 had started in 2014 with a detector model and then was continued with a full-scale detector in 2016 - 2021. In this article we describe all steps of preparatory work on this experiment. We present all results of…

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

The Solenoidal Large Intensity Device (SoLID) is a large acceptance spectrometer capable of operating at the luminosity frontier. It is proposed to fully exploit the scientific potential of the continuous electron beam accelerator facility…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-08-30 Zein-Eddine Meziani

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

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 DANSS project is aimed at creating a relatively compact neutrino spectrometer which does not contain any flammable or other dangerous liquids and may therefore be located very close to the core of an industrial power reactor. As a…

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…

The SoLid collaboration have developed an intelligent readout system to reduce their 3200 silicon photomultiplier detector's data rate by a factor of 10000 whilst maintaining high efficiency for storing data from anti-neutrino interactions.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-15 L. Arnold , W. Beaumont , D. Cussans , D. Newbold , N. Ryder , A. Weber

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

Technology developed for the T2K electromagnetic calorimeter has been adapted to make a small footprint, reliable, segmented detector to characterise anti-neutrinos emitted by nuclear reactors. The device has been developed and demonstrated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-11-05 J. Carroll , J. Coleman , G. Davies , M. Lockwood , C. Metelko , R. Mills , M. Murdoch , A. Roberts , Y. Schnellbach , C. Touramanis

In the recent years, major milestones in neutrino physics were accomplished at nuclear reactors: the smallest neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ was determined with high precision and the emitted antineutrino spectrum was measured at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-04-10 Stefan Schoppmann

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

The next generation of very-short-baseline reactor experiments will require compact detectors operating at surface level and close to a nuclear reactor. This paper presents a new detector concept based on a composite solid scintillator…

SND@LHC is a compact and stand-alone experiment to perform measurements with neutrinos produced at the LHC in a hitherto unexplored pseudo-rapidity region of 7.2 < {\eta} < 8.4, complementary to all the other experiments at the LHC. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-02 A. Iuliano

Existence of hypothetical fourth neutrino, so-called sterile neutrino, is one of open issues in the particle and neutrino physics. This fourth neutrino is a candidate for explaining some anomalies reported in LSND, MiniBoone, reactor…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-09-26 Jae Won Shin , Myung-Ki Cheoun , Toshitaka Kajino , Takehito Hayakawa

One of the main goals of RENO (Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation) is to measure the smallest neutrino mixing angle {\theta}13 using reactor neutrinos in Korea. RENO is the first reactor experiment taking data with two identical…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-21 Seon-Hee Seo

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

We study the optimization of a green-field, two-baseline reactor experiment with respect to the sensitivity for electron antineutrino disappearance in search of a light sterile neutrino. We consider both commercial and research reactors and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-16 Jeffrey M. Berryman , Luis A. Delgadillo , Patrick Huber