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Measurement of the Electron Antineutrino Oscillation with 1958 Days of Operation at Daya Bay
- Source :
- Physical Review Letters, Collaboration, DB; Adey, D; An, FP; Balantekin, AB; Band, HR; Bishai, M; et al.(2018). Measurement of electron antineutrino oscillation with 1958 days of operation at Daya Bay. UC Irvine: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9nh0w21w
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- APS, 2018.
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Abstract
- We report a measurement of electron antineutrino oscillation from the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment with nearly 4 million reactor $\overline{\nu}_{e}$ inverse beta decay candidates observed over 1958 days of data collection. The installation of a Flash-ADC readout system and a special calibration campaign using different source enclosures reduce uncertainties in the absolute energy calibration to less than 0.5% for visible energies larger than 2 MeV. The uncertainty in the cosmogenic $^9$Li and $^8$He background is reduced from 45% to 30% in the near detectors. A detailed investigation of the spent nuclear fuel history improves its uncertainty from 100% to 30%. Analysis of the relative $\overline{\nu}_{e}$ rates and energy spectra among detectors yields $\sin^{2}2\theta_{13} = 0.0856\pm 0.0029$ and $\Delta m^2_{32}=(2.471^{+0.068}_{-0.070})\times 10^{-3}~\mathrm{eV}^2$ assuming the normal hierarchy, and $\Delta m^2_{32}=-(2.575^{+0.068}_{-0.070})\times 10^{-3}~\mathrm{eV}^2$ assuming the inverted hierarchy.<br />Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, and 1 table. v4: the published version
- Subjects :
- Physics
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Oscillation
hep-ex
Daya bay
General Physics and Astronomy
Inverse
FOS: Physical sciences
Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment
Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
01 natural sciences
Spectral line
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
0103 physical sciences
010306 general physics
Electron neutrino
physics.ins-det
Energy (signal processing)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physical Review Letters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8e2e6555f06fb684f038c772267a63de