Reevaluating reactor antineutrino anomalies with updated flux predictions
Abstract
Hints for the existence of a sterile neutrino at nuclear reactors are reexamined using two updated predictions for the fluxes of antineutrinos produced in fissions. These new predictions diverge in their preference for the rate deficit anomaly, relative to previous analyses, but the anomaly in the ratios of measured antineutrino spectra persists. We comment on upcoming experiments and their ability to probe the preferred region of the sterile-neutrino parameter space in the electron neutrino disappearance channel.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF); Heising-Simons Foundation
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1591695
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1803361
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0018327; SC0020262; PHY-1630782; 2017-228
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review D
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 101 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics
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Berryman, Jeffrey M., and Huber, Patrick. Reevaluating reactor antineutrino anomalies with updated flux predictions. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.101.015008.
Berryman, Jeffrey M., & Huber, Patrick. Reevaluating reactor antineutrino anomalies with updated flux predictions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.015008
Berryman, Jeffrey M., and Huber, Patrick. Tue .
"Reevaluating reactor antineutrino anomalies with updated flux predictions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.015008.
@article{osti_1591695,
title = {Reevaluating reactor antineutrino anomalies with updated flux predictions},
author = {Berryman, Jeffrey M. and Huber, Patrick},
abstractNote = {Hints for the existence of a sterile neutrino at nuclear reactors are reexamined using two updated predictions for the fluxes of antineutrinos produced in fissions. These new predictions diverge in their preference for the rate deficit anomaly, relative to previous analyses, but the anomaly in the ratios of measured antineutrino spectra persists. We comment on upcoming experiments and their ability to probe the preferred region of the sterile-neutrino parameter space in the electron neutrino disappearance channel.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.101.015008},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 1,
volume = 101,
place = {United States},
year = {2020},
month = {1}
}
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