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The SoLid experiment aims to resolve the reactor neutrino anomaly by searching for electron-to-sterile anti-neutrino oscillations. The search will be performed between 5.5 and 10 m from the highly enriched uranium core of the BR2 reactor at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Nick Ryder

We show that in a reactor disappearance oscillation experiment the sensitivity to the mixing parameter can be substantially improved for $(1 - 5\cdot10^{-4}) eV^{2}$ mass parameter range which includes both the LSND and the atmospheric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-15 L. A. Mikaelyan , V. V. Sinev

The article describes a new experiment with an artificial neutrino source 58Co on a gallium target GGNT (SAGE). The goal of the experiment is to study the gallium anomaly. The experiment makes it possible to find the parameters of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-15 V. N. Gavrin , V. V. Gorbachev , T. V. Ibragimova , V. A. Matveev

The MiniBooNE experiment has observed a significant excess of electron neutrinos in a muon neutrino beam at source-detector distances too short to be compatible with standard neutrino oscillations. The most straightforward explanation for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-01 Mona Dentler , Ivan Esteban , Joachim Kopp , Pedro Machado

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

Anomalies in past neutrino measurements have led to the discovery that these particles have non-zero mass and oscillate between their three flavors when they propagate. In the 2010's, similar anomalies observed in the antineutrino spectra…

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

There is an observed deficit of about 6\% in the expected rate of anti-neutrino interactions when averaging over many different reactor experiments. While the significance of the deficit is low (98.6 \% CL), there is speculation that a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-01-06 M. Bergevin , C. Grant , R. Svoboda

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

Several neutrino experiments have reported results that are potentially inconsistent with our current understanding of the lepton sector. A candidate solution to these so-called short-baseline anomalies is postulating the existence of new,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-27 K. S. Babu , Vedran Brdar , André de Gouvêa , Pedro A. N. Machado

We review the status and the results of reactor neutrino experiments, that toe the cutting edge of neutrino research. Short baseline experiments have provided the measurement of the reactor neutrino spectrum, and are still searching for…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Thierry Lasserre , Henry W. Sobel

The significance of the Gallium Anomaly, from the BEST, GALLEX, and SAGE radioactive source experiments, is quantified using different theoretical calculations of the neutrino detection cross section, and its explanation due to neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-09 C. Giunti , Y. F. Li , C. A. Ternes , O. Tyagi , Z. Xin

Recent neutrino oscillation results have evoked renewed interest in sterile neutrino oscillation models. This paper reviews the data from MiniBooNE and short-baseline reactor antineutrino experiments within the context of sterile neutrinos.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-18 G. Karagiorgi

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

This proposal describes an experimental search for sterile neutrinos beyond the Standard Model with a new CERN-SPS neutrino beam. The experiment is based on two identical LAr-TPC's followed by magnetized spectrometers, observing the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-03-30 M. Antonello , D. Bagliani , B. Baibussinov , H. Bilokon , F. Boffelli , M. Bonesini , E. Calligarich , N. Canci , S. Centro , A. Cesana , K. Cieslik , D. B. Cline , A. G. Cocco , D. Dequal , A. Dermenev , R. Dolfini , M. De Gerone , S. Dussoni , C. Farnese , A. Fava , A. Ferrari , G. Fiorillo , G. T. Garvey , F. Gatti , D. Gibin , S. Gninenko , F. Guber , A. Guglielmi , M. Haranczyk , J. Holeczek , A. Ivashkin , M. Kirsanov , J. Kisiel , I. Kochanek , A. Kurepin , J. Łagoda , G. Lucchini , W. C. Louis , S. Mania , G. Mannocchi , S. Marchini , V. Matveev , A. Menegolli , G. Meng , G. B. Mills , C. Montanari , M. Nicoletto , S. Otwinowski , T. J. Palczewski , G. Passardi , F. Perfetto , P. Picchi , F. Pietropaolo , P. Płoński , A. Rappoldi , G. L. Raselli , M. Rossella , C. Rubbia , P. Sala , A. Scaramelli , E. Segreto , D. Stefan , J. Stepaniak , R. Sulej , O. Suvorova , M. Terrani , D. Tlisov , R. G. Van de Water , G. Trinchero , M. Turcato , F. Varanini , S. Ventura , C. Vignoli , H. G. Wang , X. Yang , A. Zani , K. Zaremba , M. Benettoni , P. Bernardini , A. Bertolin , C. Bozza , R. Brugnera , A. Cecchetti , S. Cecchini , G. Collazuol , P. Creti , F. Dal Corso , I. De Mitri , G. De Robertis , M. De Serio , L. Degli Esposti , D. Di Ferdinando , U. Dore , S. Dusini , P. Fabbricatore , C. Fanin , R. A. Fini , G. Fiore , A. Garfagnini , G. Giacomelli , R. Giacomelli , G. Grelli , C. Guandalini , M. Guerzoni , U. Kose , G. Laurenti , M. Laveder , I. Lippi , F. Loddo , A. Longhin , P. Loverre , G. Mancarella , G. Mandrioli , A. Margiotta , G. Marsella , N. Mauri , E. Medinaceli , A. Mengucci , M. Mezzetto , R. Michinelli , M. T. Muciaccia , D. Orecchini , A. Paoloni , A. Pastore , L. Patrizii , M. Pozzato , R. Rescigno , G. Rosa , S. Simone , M. Sioli , G. Sirri , M. Spurio , L. Stanco , S. Stellacci , A. Surdo , M. Tenti , V. Togo , M. Ventura , M. Zago

The low energy part of the reactor neutrino spectra has not been experimentally measured. Its uncertainties limit the sensitivities in certain reactor neutrino experiments. The origin of these uncertainties are discussed, and the effects on…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-09-25 Hau-Bin Li , Henry T. Wong

Recently the Baksan Experiment on Sterile Transitions (BEST) has presented results confirming the gallium anomaly -- a lack of electron neutrinos $\nu_e$ at calibrations of SAGE and GALLEX -- at the statistical significance exceeding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-23 Vladislav Barinov , Dmitry Gorbunov

We investigate non-standard interaction effects in antineutrino-electron scattering experiments with baselines short enough to ignore standard oscillation phenomena. The setup is free of ambiguities from the interference between new physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-24 Amir N. Khan , Douglas W. McKay , F. Tahir

The PROSPECT and STEREO collaborations present a combined measurement of the pure $^{235}$U antineutrino spectrum, without site specific corrections or detector-dependent effects. The spectral measurements of the two highest precision…