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Published February 12, 2016 | Published + Supplemental Material + Submitted
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Measurement of the Reactor Antineutrino Flux and Spectrum at Daya Bay

Abstract

This Letter reports a measurement of the flux and energy spectrum of electron antineutrinos from six 2.9 GW_(th) nuclear reactors with six detectors deployed in two near (effective baselines 512 and 561 m) and one far (1579 m) underground experimental halls in the Daya Bay experiment. Using 217 days of data, 296 721 and 41 589 inverse β decay (IBD) candidates were detected in the near and far halls, respectively. The measured IBD yield is (1.55±0.04) ×10^(−18)  cm^2  GW^(−1)  day^(−1) or (5.92±0.14) ×10^(−43)  cm^2  fission^(−1). This flux measurement is consistent with previous short-baseline reactor antineutrino experiments and is 0.946±0.022 (0.991±0.023) relative to the flux predicted with the Huber−Mueller (ILL-Vogel) fissile antineutrino model. The measured IBD positron energy spectrum deviates from both spectral predictions by more than 2σ over the full energy range with a local significance of up to ∼4σ between 4–6 MeV. A reactor antineutrino spectrum of IBD reactions is extracted from the measured positron energy spectrum for model-independent predictions.

Additional Information

© 2016 American Physical Society. Received 18 August 2015; published 12 February 2016. Daya Bay is supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the CAS Center for Excellence in Particle Physics, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Guangdong provincial government, the Shenzhen municipal government, the China General Nuclear Power Group, Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program of Institute of High Energy Physics, Shanghai Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, the 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, Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program of Berkeley National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic, Charles University in Prague, the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, the NSFC-RFBR joint research program, the National Commission of Scientific and Technological Research of Chile. We acknowledge 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 General Nuclear Power Group and China Light and Power Company.

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Published - PhysRevLett.116.061801.pdf

Submitted - 1508.04233v1.pdf

Supplemental Material - SupplementalMaterial.root

Supplemental Material - SupplementalMaterial.txt

Supplemental Material - reactor_antineutrino_spectrum_application.pdf

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