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Neutrino Oscillation Studies with Reactors
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Vogel, P.
- Wen, L. J.
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Zhang, C.
Abstract
Nuclear reactors are one of the most intense, pure, controllable, cost-effective and well-understood sources of neutrinos. Reactors have played a major role in the study of neutrino oscillations, a phenomenon that indicates that neutrinos have mass and that neutrino flavours are quantum mechanical mixtures. Over the past several decades, reactors were used in the discovery of neutrinos, were crucial in solving the solar neutrino puzzle, and allowed the determination of the smallest mixing angle θ_(13). In the near future, reactors will help to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy and to solve the puzzling issue of sterile neutrinos.
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© 2015 Macmillan Publishers Limited. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Received 03 November 2014; Accepted 17 March 2015; Published 27 April 2015. We thank X. Qian, D. Jaffe, M. Diwan and S. Kettell for reading the manuscript. The work of C.Z. was supported in part by the Department of Energy under contracts DE-SC0012704. The work of P.V. was supported in part by the National Science Foundation NSF-1205977 and by the Physics Department, California Institute of Technology. The work of L.J.W. was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11205183). Competing financial interests: The authors declare no competing financial interests.Attached Files
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- DE-SC0012704
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- NSF-1205977
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- Caltech
- 11205183
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
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