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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

Measuring the neutrino mixing parameter \ensuremath{\sin^2\theta_{13}} to the sub-percent precision level could be necessary in the next ten years for the precision unitary test of the PMNS matrix. In this work, we discuss the possibility…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-03-17 Jinnan Zhang , Jun Cao

It is shown that, if the "new neutrino" implied by the Reactor Neutrino Anomaly exists and is in fact characterized by the suggested relatively high mass squared difference and reasonably large mixing angle, it should clearly reveal itself…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-28 J. D. Vergados , Y. Giomataris , Yu. N. Novikov

Till 2010 we had three unknown parameters of neutrino oscillation: the third mixing angle {\theta}_(13), the sign of the larger mass difference {\Delta}m^(2)_(31) and the CP violating phase {\delta}. Thanks to a number of consistent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 D. P. Roy

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

After the first measurement of the coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (CENNS) by the COHERENT Collaboration, it is expected that new experiments will confirm the observation. Such measurements will allow to put stronger…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 B. C. Cañas , E. A. Garcés , O. G. Miranda , A. Parada

We investigate how the data from various future neutrino oscillation experiments will constrain the physics parameters for a three active neutrino mixing model. The investigations properly account for the degeneracies and ambiguities…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-09-09 Kendall B. M. Mahn , Michael H. Shaevitz

The pattern of oscillation parameters emerging from current experimental data can be further elucidated by the observation of matter effects. In contrast to planned experiments with conventional neutrino beams, atmospheric neutrinos offer…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 T. Tabarelli de Fatis

The Double Chooz reactor neutrino experiment will be the next detector to search for a non vanishing theta(13) mixing angle with unprecedented sensitivity, which might open the way to unveiling CP violation in the leptonic sector. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-05-25 I. Gil-Botella

The technical breakthroughs of multiple detectors developed by Daya Bay and RENO collaborations have gotten great attention. Yet the optimal determination of neutrino mixing parameters from reactor data depends on the statistical method and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-23 Amir N. Khan , Douglas W. McKay , John P. Ralston

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

Flux is an important source of uncertainties for a reactor neutrino experiment. It is determined from thermal power measurements, reactor core simulation, and knowledge of neutrino spectra of fuel isotopes. Past reactor neutrino experiments…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-05-27 Jun Cao

Neutrino oscillations are studied employing sources of low energy monoenergetic neutrinos following electron capture by the nucleus and measuring electron recoils. Since the neutrino energy is very low the oscillation length appearing in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-27 J. D. Vergados , Y. Giomataris , Yu. N. Novikov

RENO (Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation) is an experiment dedicated to measure the smallest neutrino mixing angle {\theta}_13 using reactor neutrinos in Korea. Our first result measured in 2012 using about 220 live days of data…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-12-18 Seon-Hee Seo

We discuss reactor measurement of \theta_{12} which has a potential of reaching the ultimate sensitivity which surpasses all the methods so far proposed. The key is to place a detector at an appropriate baseline distance from the reactor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Minakata , H. Nunokawa , W. J. C. Teves , R. Zukanovich Funchal

The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment is designed to determine the yet unknown neutrino mixing angle theta_13 by measuring the disappearance of electron antineutrinos from several nuclear reactor cores, using multiple underground…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 M. -C. Chu

Numbers of accelerator and reactor neutrino oscillation experiments aiming to search finite value of $\theta_{13}$ are starting within a few years. T2K experiment is a next generation long baseline neutrino experiment starts on 2009, in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-07-28 Y. Obayashi

We propose a new relation between quark mixing matrix and lepton mixing matrix. Since the parameters in the quark sector are well determined, we employ them to describe the mixing of leptons. Phenomenologically, we study the neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-02 Nan Qin , Bo-Qiang Ma

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

A brief review of the experimental status of neutrino mixing. The model of neutrino oscillations has now been established with high confidence, with many of the model parameters measured to an accuracy of a few per cent. However, some…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-07-21 Justin Evans