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Recent Results from Reactor Antineutrino Experiments

by H. Seo

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Authors (as registered SciPost users): Hyunkwan Seo
Submission information
Preprint Link: scipost_201811_00038v1  (pdf)
Date submitted: 2018-11-25 01:00
Submitted by: Seo, Hyunkwan
Submitted to: SciPost Physics Proceedings
Proceedings issue: The 15th International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics (TAU2018)
Ontological classification
Academic field: Physics
Specialties:
  • High-Energy Physics - Experiment
Approach: Experimental

Abstract

The smallest neutrino mixing angle 13 has been successfully measured by the disappearance of reactor antineutrinos at RENO, Daya Bay, and Double Chooz. The oscillation frequency is also measured based on energy and baseline dependent disappearance probability of reactor antineutrinos. Recent results find a variation in the observed reactor antineutrino flux as a function of the reactor fuel evolution. We report more precisely measured values of theta_13 and dm^2_ee and results on the evolution of observed reactor antineutrino yield and spectrum.

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Has been resubmitted

Reports on this Submission

Report #1 by Anonymous (Referee 1) on 2018-11-27 (Invited Report)

  • Cite as: Anonymous, Report on arXiv:scipost_201811_00038v1, delivered 2018-11-27, doi: 10.21468/SciPost.Report.676

Strengths

The paper gives an up-to-date review of reactor neutrino experiments and gives an excellent overview of the flux normalization anomaly and the 5 MeV excess.

Weaknesses

Minor typos.

Report

page 2 line 3: experiments ... has -> experiments ... have
page 2 line 6: experiment -> experiments
page 2 second line from bottom: of prediction -> of the prediction
page 3 first sentence of section 4: -> A study has been carried out to find changes....
page 3 section 4 line 3: -> The left hand side plot...
page 3: it would be good to define both "measured IBD yield" (its unit appears to be that of a cross section?) and the "effective fission fraction" explicitly.
page 4 line 2: -> The right hand side plot...
page 4 last paragraph: beware of spaces between number and unit, these spaces are sometimes missing.
page 5 caption figure 4: sold -> solid
page 5 section 5 line 3: measurements provides -> measurements provide
page 5 section 5 line 6: Hypothesis of -> The hypothesis of

Requested changes

See report.

  • validity: high
  • significance: high
  • originality: high
  • clarity: good
  • formatting: good
  • grammar: reasonable

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