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'Neutrino-4' experiment: preparations for search for sterile neutrino at 100 MW reactor SM-3 at 6-13 meters

Authors :
Serebrov, A. P.
Fomin, A. K.
Zinoviev, V. G.
Loginov, Yu. E.
Onegin, M. S.
Gagarsky, A. M.
Petrov, G. A.
Solovey, V. A.
Chernyi, A. V.
Zherebtsov, O. M.
Martemyanov, V. P.
Zinoev, V. G.
Tarasenkov, V. G.
Alyoshin, V. I.
Petelin, A. L.
Pavlov, S. V.
Svyatkin, M. N.
Izhutov, A. L.
Sazontov, S. A.
Ryazanov, D. K.
Gromov, M. O.
Khramkov, N. S.
Ryikalin, V. I.
Publication Year :
2012

Abstract

There has been designed an experimental project "Neutrino-4" for 100 MW reactor SM-3 to test the hypothesis of the "reactor antineutrino anomaly". Advantages of the reactor SM-3 for such an experiment are low background conditions as well as small dimensions of a reactor core - 35x42x42 cm3. One has carried on the Monte-Carlo modeling of a position sensitive antineutrino detector consisting of 5 operation sections, which as a result of displacement, covers the distance from 6 to 13 meters from the reactor core. One has succeeded in obtaining an experimental area of sensitivity to oscillation parameters, which enables to verify the hypothesis of reactor antineutrino oscillations into a sterile state.<br />Comment: 13 pages, 10 figures

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1205.2955
Document Type :
Working Paper