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A lithium-based radiochemical detector is aimed primarily to detect neutrinos from CNO cycle what will provide a direct proof of its existence and will be a stringent test of the theory of stellar evolution. Another task which can be solved…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Kopylov , Valery Petukhov

The far site detector complex of the Daya Bay reactor experiment is proposed as a location to search for sterile neutrinos with > eV mass. Antineutrinos from a 500 kCi 144Ce-144Pr beta-decay source (DeltaQ=2.996 MeV) would be detected by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-05-08 D. A. Dwyer , K. M. Heeger , B. R. Littlejohn , P. Vogel

This presentation describes a measurement of the neutrino mixing parameter, sin^2(2theta_13), from the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment. Disappearance of electron antineutrinos at a distance of ~2 km from a set of six reactors, where…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Elizabeth Worcester

The resurgence of interest in nuclear power around the world highlights the importance of effective methods to safeguard against nuclear proliferation. Many powerful safeguarding techniques have been developed and are currently employed,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-26 Bryan Helz , Leia Barrowes , Igor Jovanovic , Dean Price , Brendan Kochunas , James D. Wells

Reactor antineutrinos are used to study neutrino oscillation, search for signatures of non-standard neutrino interactions, and to monitor reactor operation for safeguard applications. The flux and energy spectrum of reactor antineutrinos…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-05-01 K. M. Heeger , B. R. Littlejohn , H. P. Mumm , M. N. Tobin

We present a search for electron neutrino appearance from accelerator produced muon neutrinos in the K2K long baseline neutrino experiment. One candidate event is found in the data corresponding to an exposure of 4.8*10^19 protons on…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 K2K Collaboration , M. H. Ahn

RED-100 is a two-phase emission detector with an active volume containing 126~kg of liquid xenon. The detector was exposed to the antineutrino flux of about $1.4 \cdot 10^{13}~$cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$ at a distance of 19~m from the 3.1~GW Kalinin…

Light neutral mediators, with mass $\lesssim 1$ GeV, are common features of extensions to the Standard Model (SM). Current astrophysical and terrestrial experiments have constrained the model parameter space, and planned experiments around…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-22 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Shu Liao , Jayden L. Newstead , Louis E. Strigari , Joel W. Walker

PROSPECT, the Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment, will use two segmented detectors positioned 7-20 m from the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to measure the U-235 antineutrino spectrum…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Danielle Norcini

The PROSPECT experiment is designed to perform precise searches for antineutrino disappearance at short distances (7 - 9~m) from compact nuclear reactor cores. This Letter reports results from a new neutrino oscillation analysis performed…

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

The RENO experiment has analyzed about 500 live days of data to observe an energy dependent disappearance of reactor $\overline{\nu}_e$ by comparison of their prompt signal spectra measured in two identical near and far detectors. In the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-06-01 RENO Collaboration

We investigate the reach at the LHC to probe light sterile neutrinos with displaced vertices. We focus on sterile neutrinos $N$ with masses $m_{N} \sim $ (5-30) GeV, that are produced in rare decays of the Standard Model gauge bosons and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-15 Giovanna Cottin , Juan Carlos Helo , Martin Hirsch

The potential of elastic antineutrino-electron scattering in a Gd-doped water Cherenkov detector to determine the direction of a nuclear reactor antineutrino flux was investigated using the recently proposed WATCHMAN antineutrino experiment…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-20 D. Hellfeld , S. Dazeley , A. Bernstein , C. Marianno

Dark matter detectors will soon be sensitive to Solar neutrinos via two distinct channels: coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering and neutrino electron elastic scattering. We establish an analysis method for extracting Solar model properties…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Billard , L. Strigari , E. Figueroa-Feliciano

We propose to measure the coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) using a dual-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (TPC) with 200kg fiducial mass. The detector is expected to be adjacent to the JUNO-TAO experiment…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-03-22 Yu-Ting Wei , Meng-Yun Guan , Jin-Chang Liu , Ze-Yuan Yu , Chang-Gen Yang , Cong Guo , Wei-Xing Xiong , You-Yu Gan , Qin Zhao , Jia-Jun Li

Next generation neutrino oscillation experiments like DUNE and T2HK are multi-purpose observatories, with a rich physics program beyond oscillation measurements. A special role is played by their near detector facilities, which are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-11 Moritz Breitbach , Luca Buonocore , Claudia Frugiuele , Joachim Kopp , Lukas Mittnacht

The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment (PROSPECT) performs a precision measurement of reactor antineutrinos through inverse beta decay at a baseline range of 7-9 m from the core of the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR).…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-11-05 Olga Kyzylova

We study the impact of very light sterile neutrinos (Delta m^2_new around 1 to 10 times 10^(-2) eV^2, sin^2 2theta_new<10^(-1)) on upcoming theta_13-driven reactor antineutrino experiments like Double-CHOOZ and Daya Bay. Oscillations driven…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Andre de Gouvea , Thomas Wytock

The measurement of the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ opens a gateway for the next generation experiments to measure the neutrino mass hierarchy and the leptonic CP-violating phase. Future reactor experiments will focus on mass…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-10-29 Miao He