Observation of Electron-Antineutrino Disappearance at Daya Bay
Abstract
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has measured a nonzero value for the neutrino mixing angle θ13 with a significance of 5.2 standard deviations. Antineutrinos from six 2.9 GW_(th) reactors were detected in six antineutrino detectors deployed in two near (flux-weighted baseline 470 m and 576 m) and one far (1648 m) underground experimental halls. With a 43 000 ton–GW_(th)–day live-time exposure in 55 days, 10 416 (80 376) electron-antineutrino candidates were detected at the far hall (near halls). The ratio of the observed to expected number of antineutrinos at the far hall is R=0.940± 0.011(stat.)±0.004(syst.). A rate-only analysis finds sin^22θ_(13)=0.092±0.016(stat.)±0.005(syst.) in a three-neutrino framework.
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© 2012 American Physical Society. Received 7 March 2012; published 23 April 2012. The Daya Bay experiment is supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the United States Department of Energy, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Guangdong provincial government, the Shenzhen municipal government, the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group, Shanghai Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, University Development Fund of The University of Hong Kong, the MOE program for Research of Excellence at National Taiwan University, National Chiao-Tung University, and NSC fund support from Taiwan, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, the Czech Science Foundation, and the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia. We thank Yellow River Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd. and China railway 15th Bureau Group Co., Ltd. for building the underground laboratory. We are grateful for the ongoing cooperation from the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group and China Light & Power Company.Attached Files
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- Ministry of Science and Technology of China
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Guangdong provincial government
- Shenzhen municipal government
- China Guandong Nuclear Power Group
- Shangai Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology
- Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
- University Development Fund of The University of Hong Kong
- Research of Excellence at National Taiwan University
- National Chiao-Tung University
- NSC fund support from Taiwan
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- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic
- Czech Science Foundation
- Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia
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