Prospects of neutrino oscillation measurements in the detection of reactor antineutrinos with a medium-baseline experiment

2008/10/15 by Mikhail Batygov, M. Batygov, Stephen Dye +13 · 1 citation
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Muon and positron interactions and applications #Neutrino Physics Research #hep-ex #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0810.2580

17 pages, 16 figures

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Abstract

Despite the dramatic progress made in neutrino oscillation studies recently, several fundamental neutrino parameters remain either unknown or poorly measured. We discuss in detail a method for their measurement by precision studies of oscillation-caused neutrino energy spectrum distortions, for which a large underwater inverse beta decay detector appears to be a perfect tool. Results determine optimal baselines and necessary exposures in the presence of systematic uncertainties and the unavoidable background from terrestrial antineutrinos.

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