Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

A decade of discoveries by the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment

Journal Article · · Modern Physics Letters A
 [1]
  1. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
With the end of Daya Bay experimental operations in December 2020, I review the history, discoveries, measurements and impact of the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment in China.
Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Organization:
Daya Bay Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704
OSTI ID:
1811449
Report Number(s):
BNL--221924-2021-JAAM
Journal Information:
Modern Physics Letters A, Journal Name: Modern Physics Letters A Journal Issue: 21 Vol. 36; ISSN 0217-7323
Publisher:
World Scientific PublishingCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (71)

Neutrino method remote measurement of reactor power and power output journal February 1994
Search for neutrino oscillations at 15, 40 and 95 meters from a nuclear power reactor at Bugey journal January 1995
Geant4—a simulation toolkit
  • Agostinelli, S.; Allison, J.; Amako, K.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 506, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(03)01368-8
journal July 2003
Limits on neutrino oscillations from the CHOOZ experiment journal November 1999
The FLUKA Code: Developments and Challenges for High Energy and Medical Applications journal June 2014
Gadolinium-loaded liquid scintillator for high-precision measurements of antineutrino oscillations and the mixing angle, θ13
  • Yeh, M.; Garnov, A.; Hahn, R. L.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 578, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2007.03.029
journal July 2007
A new gadolinium-loaded liquid scintillator for reactor neutrino detection
  • Ding, Yayun; Zhang, Zhiyong; Liu, Jinchang
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 584, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2007.09.044
journal January 2008
Purification of lanthanides for large neutrino detectors: Thorium removal from gadolinium chloride
  • Yeh, M.; Cumming, J. B.; Hans, S.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 618, Issue 1-3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2010.02.124
journal June 2010
A side-by-side comparison of Daya Bay antineutrino detectors
  • An, F. P.; An, Q.; Bai, J. Z.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 685 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2012.05.030
journal September 2012
Automated calibration system for a high-precision measurement of neutrino mixing angle θ13 with the Daya Bay antineutrino detectors journal June 2014
Production of a gadolinium-loaded liquid scintillator for the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment
  • Beriguete, Wanda; Cao, Jun; Ding, Yayun
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 763 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.05.119
journal November 2014
The muon system of the Daya Bay Reactor antineutrino experiment
  • An, F. P.; Balantekin, A. B.; Band, H. R.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 773 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.09.070
journal February 2015
Waterproofed photomultiplier tube assemblies for the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment
  • Chow, Ken; Cummings, John; Edwards, Emily
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 794 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2015.05.002
journal September 2015
Neutron calibration sources in the Daya Bay experiment
  • Liu, J.; Carr, R.; Dwyer, D. A.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 797 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2015.07.003
journal October 2015
The detector system of the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment
  • An, F. P.; Bai, J. Z.; Balantekin, A. B.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 811 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2015.11.144
journal March 2016
The Flash ADC system and PMT waveform reconstruction for the Daya Bay experiment
  • Huang, Yongbo; Chang, Jinfan; Cheng, Yaping
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 895 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.03.061
journal July 2018
A high precision calibration of the nonlinear energy response at Daya Bay
  • Adey, D.; An, F. P.; Balantekin, A. B.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 940 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2019.06.031
journal October 2019
Optimization of the JUNO liquid scintillator composition using a Daya Bay antineutrino detector
  • Abusleme, A.; Adam, T.; Ahmad, S.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 988 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2020.164823
journal February 2021
Search for sterile neutrinos at the DANSS experiment journal December 2018
Double Chooz θ13 measurement via total neutron capture detection journal April 2020
The Sterile Neutrino: A short introduction journal January 2019
The idea of the neutrino journal September 1978
Observation of the isotopic evolution of pressurized water reactor fuel using an antineutrino detector journal March 2009
Improved measurement of electron antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay journal January 2013
Improved measurement of the reactor antineutrino flux and spectrum at Daya Bay journal January 2017
Manual calibration system for Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment journal September 2013
Review of Particle Physics journal August 2020
Detection of the Free Antineutrino journal January 1960
Improved predictions of reactor antineutrino spectra journal May 2011
Determination of antineutrino spectra from nuclear reactors journal August 2011
Improved measurement of the reactor antineutrino flux at Daya Bay journal September 2019
Improved sterile neutrino constraints from the STEREO experiment with 179 days of reactor-on data journal September 2020
Improved short-baseline neutrino oscillation search and energy spectrum measurement with the PROSPECT experiment at HFIR journal February 2021
Evidence for neutrino oscillations from the observation of ν ¯ e appearance in a ν ¯ μ beam journal November 2001
Reactor antineutrino anomaly journal April 2011
Evidence of θ 13 > 0 from global neutrino data analysis journal September 2011
Limits on electron neutrino disappearance from the KARMEN and LSND ν e -carbon cross section data journal January 2012
Independent measurement of the neutrino mixing angle θ 13 via neutron capture on hydrogen at Daya Bay journal October 2014
New measurement of θ 13 via neutron capture on hydrogen at Daya Bay journal April 2016
Measurement of electron antineutrino oscillation based on 1230 days of operation of the Daya Bay experiment journal April 2017
Cosmogenic neutron production at Daya Bay journal March 2018
Atmospheric neutrino oscillation analysis with external constraints in Super-Kamiokande I-IV journal April 2018
Search for a time-varying electron antineutrino signal at Daya Bay journal November 2018
Indication of Electron Neutrino Appearance from an Accelerator-Produced Off-Axis Muon Neutrino Beam journal July 2011
Improved Search for Muon-Neutrino to Electron-Neutrino Oscillations in MINOS journal October 2011
Indication of Reactor ν ¯ e Disappearance in the Double Chooz Experiment journal March 2012
Observation of Electron-Antineutrino Disappearance at Daya Bay journal April 2012
Observation of Reactor Electron Antineutrinos Disappearance in the RENO Experiment journal May 2012
Spectral Measurement of Electron Antineutrino Oscillation Amplitude and Frequency at Daya Bay journal February 2014
Search for a Light Sterile Neutrino at Daya Bay journal October 2014
New Measurement of Antineutrino Oscillation with the Full Detector Configuration at Daya Bay journal September 2015
Measurement of the Reactor Antineutrino Flux and Spectrum at Daya Bay journal February 2016
Limits on Active to Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments journal October 2016
Improved Search for a Light Sterile Neutrino with the Full Configuration of the Daya Bay Experiment journal October 2016
Sterile Neutrino Search at the NEOS Experiment journal March 2017
Evolution of the Reactor Antineutrino Flux and Spectrum at Daya Bay journal June 2017
Search for C P Violation in Neutrino and Antineutrino Oscillations by the T2K Experiment with 2.2 × 10 21 Protons on Target journal October 2018
Measurement of Reactor Antineutrino Oscillation Amplitude and Frequency at RENO journal November 2018
Measurement of the Electron Antineutrino Oscillation with 1958 Days of Operation at Daya Bay journal December 2018
Extraction of the U 235 and Pu 239 Antineutrino Spectra at Daya Bay journal September 2019
First measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters using neutrinos and antineutrinos by NOvA journal October 2019
Improved Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Mixing from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, MINOS + , Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments journal August 2020
Accurate Measurement of the Electron Antineutrino Yield of U 235 Fissions from the STEREO Experiment with 119 Days of Reactor-On Data journal November 2020
Constraints on Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering in the Fully Coherent Regime from the CONUS Experiment journal January 2021
Radioactivity's two early puzzles journal October 1977
Reactor-based neutrino oscillation experiments journal March 2002
Measurement of the Ratio of Cumulative Spectra of Beta Particles from $${}^{{235}}$$U and $${}^{{239}}$$Pu Fission Products for Solving Problems of Reactor-Antineutrino Physics journal January 2021
Study of the wave packet treatment of neutrino oscillation at Daya Bay journal September 2017
Search for neutrino oscillations on a long base-line at the CHOOZ nuclear power station journal April 2003
Reactor Neutrino Spectra journal October 2016
Improved Sterile Neutrino Constraints from the STEREO Experiment with 179 Days of Reactor-On Data collection January 2020

Similar Records

The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment
Journal Article · Wed Dec 16 23:00:00 EST 2009 · AIP Conference Proceedings · OSTI ID:21325723