Reactor Neutrinos: Toward Oscillations

2019/02/08 by Vogel, Petr
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1902.03281

Abstract

I shall sketch the history of reactor neutrino physics over five decades since the Reines-Cowan proof of neutrino existence in the late 50s, till the advent of the present era of precision reactor neutrino oscillation experiments. There are three chapters of this story: i) Exploration of possibilities of the reactor neutrinos in the 60s and 70s; ii) Looking for oscillations under the streetlamp in the 80s and 90s; iii) Exploring oscillations in detail with known (almost) Δm²_atm and Δm²_sol.

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