Reevaluating reactor antineutrino anomalies with updated flux predictions
dc.contributor.author | Berryman, Jeffrey M. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Huber, Patrick | en |
dc.contributor.department | Physics | en |
dc.contributor.department | Center for Neutrino Physics | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-01-11T20:37:32Z | en |
dc.date.available | 2021-01-11T20:37:32Z | en |
dc.date.issued | 2020-01-14 | en |
dc.description.abstract | Hints for the existence of a sterile neutrino at nuclear reactors are reexamined using two updated predictions for the fluxes of antineutrinos produced in fissions. These new predictions diverge in their preference for the rate deficit anomaly, relative to previous analyses, but the anomaly in the ratios of measured antineutrino spectra persists. We comment on upcoming experiments and their ability to probe the preferred region of the sterile-neutrino parameter space in the electron neutrino disappearance channel. | en |
dc.description.notes | We thank Giorgio Gratta (Palo Verde), Soo-Bong Kim (RENO), David Lhuillier (STEREO), and Karsten Heeger, and Bryce Littlejohn and Pranava Teja Surukuchi (PROSPECT) for providing data and useful discussions. We also thank Muriel Fallot for providing the ab initio fluxes in machine-readable format and Leendert Hayen for information on the HKSS model. J. M. B. thanks the Fermilab Neutrino Physics Center for their hospitality during the completion of this work. This work is supported by DOE Office of Science Awards No. DE-SC0018327 and No. DE-SC0020262. The work of J. M. B. is also supported by NSF Grant No. PHY-1630782 and by Heising-Simons Foundation Grant No. 2017-228. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | DOE Office of ScienceUnited States Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0018327, DE-SC0020262]; NSFNational Science Foundation (NSF) [PHY-1630782]; Heising-Simons Foundation [2017-228] | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.015008 | en |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2470-0029 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2470-0010 | en |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | en |
dc.identifier.other | 15008 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/101835 | en |
dc.identifier.volume | 101 | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
dc.title | Reevaluating reactor antineutrino anomalies with updated flux predictions | en |
dc.title.serial | Physical Review D | en |
dc.type | Article - Refereed | en |
dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |
dc.type.dcmitype | StillImage | en |
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