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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

New ${\bar{\nu}_e},e$ scattering experiments aimed for sensitive searches of the ${\nu}_e$ magnetic moment and projects to explore small mixing angle oscillations at reactors call for a better understanding of the reactor antineutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Kopeikin , L. Mikaelyan , V. Sinev

The reactor antineutrinos are used for the precise measurement of oscillation parameters in the 3-neutrino model, and also used to investigate active-sterile neutrino mixing sensitivity in the 3$+$1 neutrino framework. In the present work,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-05 S. P. Behera , D. K. Mishra , L. M. Pant

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

The primordial 7Li abundance predicted by standard Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) exceeds that inferred from old, metal-poor stars by a factor of about 3-4. In standard BBN, most primordial 7Li is produced as 7Be in the early Universe and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-21 Simone Taioli , Francesca Triggiani , Stefano Simonucci

Compared to other neutrino sources, the huge anti-neutrino fluxes at nuclear reactor based experiments empower us to derive stronger bounds on non-standard interactions of neutrinos with electrons mediated by light scalar/vector mediators.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-12 Bhaskar Dutta , Sumit Ghosh , Tianjun Li , Adrian Thompson , Ankur Verma

We explore the detectability of the neutrino flux from the entire Galactic Plane or from a part of it with IceCube. We calculate the normalization and the spectral index of the neutrino power law spectrum from different regions of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 C. Tchernin , J. A. Aguilar , A. Neronov , T. Montaruli

We propose and validate a method of anti-neutrino energy reconstruction for charged-current meson-less interactions on composite fully active targets containing hydrogen (such as hydrocarbon scintillator), which is largely free of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-05-13 L. Munteanu , S. Suvorov , S. Dolan , D. Sgalaberna , S. Bolognesi , S. Manly , G. Yang , C. Giganti , K. Iwamoto , C. Jesús-Valls

The $^{144}$Ce -- $^{144}$Pr electron antineutrino source is one of the most suitable radiochemical sources for experiments searching for the oscillations of active neutrinos to the light sterile state. In the current work the…

A search for depletion of the combined flux of active neutrino species over a 735 km baseline is reported using neutral-current interaction data recorded by the MINOS detectors in the NuMI neutrino beam. Such a depletion is not expected…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 The MINOS Collaboration

Various groups have demonstrated that antineutrino monitoring can be successful in assessing the plutonium content in water-cooled nuclear reactors for nonproliferation applications. New reactor designs and concepts incorporate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-22 Oluwatomi A. Akindele , Adam Bernstein , Eric B. Norman

Motivated by Pierre Auger Observatory results favoring a heavy nuclear composition for ultrahigh-energy (UHE) cosmic rays, we investigate implications for the cumulative neutrino background. The requirement that nuclei not be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-14 Kohta Murase , John F. Beacom

The STEREO experiment is designed to test the hypothesis of light sterile neutrinos being the cause of the Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly. It measures the antineutrino energy spectrum from the compact core of the ILL research reactor in six…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-09-04 Stefan Schoppmann

SoLid, located at SCK-CEN in Mol, Belgium, is a reactor antineutrino experiment at a very short baseline of 5.5 -- 10m aiming at the search for sterile neutrinos and for high precision measurement of the neutrino energy spectrum of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-03 Lukas On Arnold

The electron antineutrino spectrum in the Stereo reactor experiment (ILL Grenoble) is measured via the inverse beta decay signals in an organic liquid scintillator. The six target cells of the Stereo detector are filled with about 1800…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-30 Christian Buck , Benjamin Gramlich , Manfred Lindner , Christian Roca , Stefan Schoppmann

Precision spectroscopy of the electron spectrum of the tritium $\beta$ decay near the kinematic endpoint is a direct method to determine the effective electron antineutrino mass. The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment aims to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-18 Moritz Machatschek

The ANTARES telescope is well suited to detect neutrinos produced in astrophysical transient sources as it can observe a full hemisphere of the sky at all times with a high duty cycle. The background and point source sensitivity can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 D. Dornic

Sensitive searches for antineutrino oscillations in atmospheric mass parameter region much discussed in recent years are based on accurate comparison of the inverse beta decay positron spectra measured in two (or more) detectors, far and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 V. Kopeikin , L. Mikaelyan , V. Sinev

Here we present the specifications of the newly developed beta-spectrometer based on thick full absorption Si(Li) detector. The spectrometer can be used for precision measurements of various beta-spectra, namely for the beta-spectrum shape…