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Accurate Measurement of the Electron Antineutrino Yield of ^{235}U Fissions from the STEREO Experiment with 119 Days of Reactor-On Data.

Authors :
Almazán H
Bernard L
Blanchet A
Bonhomme A
Buck C
Sanchez PDA
Atmani IE
Haser J
Labit L
Lamblin J
Letourneau A
Lhuillier D
Licciardi M
Lindner M
Materna T
Minotti A
Onillon A
Pessard H
Réal JS
Roca C
Rogly R
Salagnac T
Savu V
Schoppmann S
Sergeyeva V
Soldner T
Stutz A
Vialat M
Source :
Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2020 Nov 13; Vol. 125 (20), pp. 201801.
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

We report a measurement of the antineutrino rate from the fission of ^{235}U with the STEREO detector using 119 days of reactor turned on. In our analysis, we perform several detailed corrections and achieve the most precise single measurement at reactors with highly enriched ^{235}U fuel. We measure an IBD cross section per fission of σ_{f}=(6.34±0.06[stat]±0.15[sys]±0.15[model])×10^{-43}  cm^{2}/fission and observe a rate deficit of (5.2±0.8[stat]±2.3[sys]±2.3[model])% compared to the model, consistent with the deficit of the world average. Testing ^{235}U as the sole source of the deficit, we find a tension between the results of lowly and highly enriched ^{235}U fuel of 2.1 standard deviations.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1079-7114
Volume :
125
Issue :
20
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Physical review letters
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
33258621
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.201801