1. Sterile Neutrino Constraints from the STEREO Experiment with 66 Days of Reactor-On Data
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T. Soldner, A. Bonhomme, T. Salagnac, A. Letourneau, S. Kox, S. Schoppmann, T. Materna, Christian Buck, D. Lhuillier, F. Kandzia, A. Minotti, A. Stutz, L. Manzanillas, V. Sergeyeva, J. Haser, L. Bernard, H. Pessard, J. S. Real, J. Favier, S. Zsoldos, P. Del Amo Sanchez, J. Lamblin, C. Roca, H. Almazan, Manfred Lindner, V. Helaine, A. Blanchet, François Montanet, Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), ILL, STEREO, Almazan, H, Sanchez, P, Bernard, L, Blanchet, A, Bonhomme, A, Buck, C, Favier, J, Haser, J, Helaine, V, Kandzia, F, Kox, S, Lamblin, J, Letourneau, A, Lhuillier, D, Lindner, M, Manzanillas, L, Materna, T, Minotti, A, Montanet, F, Pessard, H, Real, J, Roca, C, Salagnac, T, Schoppmann, S, Sergeyeva, V, Soldner, T, Stutz, A, Zsoldos, S, Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP/Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)
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Normalization (statistics) ,Sterile neutrino ,data analysis method ,neutrino: mass difference ,General Physics and Astronomy ,FOS: Physical sciences ,anomaly ,01 natural sciences ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Nuclear physics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,statistical analysis ,0103 physical sciences ,antineutrino: nuclear reactor ,[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex] ,Research reactor ,010306 general physics ,nuclear reactor: particle source ,Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Oscillation ,Anomaly (natural sciences) ,Null (mathematics) ,Detector ,antineutrino: energy spectrum ,neutrino: sterile ,neutrino: mixing angle ,Pulse (physics) ,antineutrino: oscillation ,13. Climate action ,sterile neutrino ,S067NUS ,Elementary Particles and Fields ,experimental results - Abstract
International audience; The reactor antineutrino anomaly might be explained by the oscillation of reactor antineutrinos toward a sterile neutrino of eV mass. In order to explore this hypothesis, the STEREO experiment measures the antineutrino energy spectrum in six different detector cells covering baselines between 9 and 11 m from the compact core of the ILL research reactor. In this Letter, results from 66 days of reactor turned on and 138 days of reactor turned off are reported. A novel method to extract the antineutrino rates has been developed based on the distribution of the pulse shape discrimination parameter. The test of a new oscillation toward a sterile neutrino is performed by comparing ratios of cells, independent of absolute normalization and of the prediction of the reactor spectrum. The results are found to be compatible with the null oscillation hypothesis and the best fit of the reactor antineutrino anomaly is excluded at 97.5% C.L.
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- 2018
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