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We report on the initial results from a measurement of the anti-neutrino flux and spectrum at a distance of about 800 m from the three reactors of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station using a segmented gadolinium-loaded scintillation…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Boehm , J. Busenitz , B. Cook , G. Gratta , H. Henrikson , J. Kornis , D. Lawrence , K. B. Lee , K. McKinny , L. Miller , V. Novikov , A. Piepke , B. Ritchie , D. Tracy , P. Vogel , Y-F. Wang , J. Wolf

Modification of large water Cherenkov detectors by addition of gadolinium has been proposed. The large cross section for neutron capture on Gd will greatly improve the sensitivity to antielectron neutrinos from supernovae and reactors. A…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Atsuko Kibayashi

Reactor neutrinos have played a key role in understanding neutrino physics since their discovery. The so-called reactor-anti-neutrino-anomaly RAA, a ~6.5 $\%$ deficit of the mean observed neutrino flux compared to the prediction appeared…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-03-02 Ilham El Atmani

The Neutrinos Angra Experiment is a water-based Cherenkov detector located in the Angra dos Reis nuclear power plant. The experiment has completed a major step by finishing the commissioning of the detector and the data acquisition system…

Signatures of neutrino and antineutrino signals from stellar collapse in heavy water detectors are contrasted with those in water detectors. The effects of mixing, especially due to the highly dense matter in the supernova core, are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-17 Gautam Dutta , D. Indumathi , M. V. N. Murthy , G. Rajasekaran

We discuss the Chooz experiment, a long baseline search for neutrino vacuum oscillations, which will utilize a large gadolinium-loaded liquid scintillation detector one km from a large nuclear power station in France. The 300-meter (water…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. I. Steinberg

Recent studies have shown that there are discrepancies between observations and the theoretical predictions in some neutrino experiments at short distances. In the so-called "Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly" and in the "Gallium Anomaly", these…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-02-10 Luis Manzanillas

We show data from a new type of detector that can be used to determine neutron flux, energy distribution, and direction of neutron motion for both fast and thermal neutrons. Many neutron detectors are plagued by large backgrounds from…

Several observed anomalies in neutrino oscillation data could be explained by a hypothetical fourth neutrino separated from the three standard neutrinos by a squared mass difference of a few 0.1 eV$^2$ or more. This hypothesis can be tested…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-11 Th. Lasserre

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

We present neutrino-based options for verifying that the nuclear reactors at North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center are no longer operating or that they are operating in an agreed manner, precluding weapons production. Neutrino…

Neutrinos in water can be detected thanks to several reactions. The most important one is the inverse beta decay $\bar\nu_{e}+p \rightarrow n+e^{+}$ . The detection of 2.2 MeV from neutron capture on free protons is very difficult. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-26 Paraskevi C. Divari

Fission events from Special Nuclear Material (SNM), such as highly enriched uranium or plutonium, can produce simultaneous emission of multiple neutrons and high energy gamma-rays. The observation of time correlations between any of these…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-05-12 M. Sweany , A. Bernstein , N. S. Bowden , S. Dazeley , G. Keefer , R. Svoboda , M. Tripathi

The existence of the coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering reaction requires to evaluate, for any detector devoted to WIMP searches, the irreducible background due to conventional neutrino sources and at same time, it gives a unique chance…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-22 Giovanni De Lellis , Antonia Di Crescenzo , Andrea Gallo Rosso , Valerio Gentile , Francesco Vissani

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

We study the possibility to replace the anti-neutrino run of a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, with anti-neutrinos from muon decay at rest. The low energy of these neutrinos allows the use of inverse beta decay for detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-28 Sanjib K. Agarwalla , Patrick Huber , Jonathan M. Link , Debabrata Mohapatra

We point out that with improving our present knowledge of experimental neutrino physics it will be possible to locate nuclear powered vehicles like submarines, aircraft carriers and UFOs and detect nuclear testing. Since neutrinos cannot be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Panigrahi , U. Sarkar

This study presents a new concept of segmented antineutrino detector based on hexagonal plastic scintillator bars for detecting antineutrinos from a nuclear reactor core. The choice of hexagonal scintillator bars is original and provides…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-18 Mustafa Kandemir , Altan Cakir

We discuss several new ideas for reactor neutrino oscillation experiments with a Large Liquid Scintillator Detector. We consider two different scenarios for a measurement of the small mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ with a mobile $\bar{\nu}_e$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Joachim Kopp , Manfred Lindner , Alexander Merle , Mark Rolinec

Neutrino-antineutrino conversion is an important new physics process. The observation of this phenomenon could indicate total lepton number violation and potential CPT-violation. Searching for the appearance of electron antineutrinos from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 S. J. Li , J. J. Ling , N. Raper , M. V. Smirnov