Observation of Electron-Antineutrino Disappearance at Daya Bay

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作者
An, F. P. [1 ]
Bai, J. Z. [1 ]
Balantekin, A. B. [2 ]
Band, H. R. [2 ]
Beavis, D. [3 ]
Beriguete, W. [3 ]
Bishai, M. [3 ]
Blyth, S. [4 ]
Boddy, K. [5 ]
Brown, R. L. [3 ]
Cai, B. [5 ]
Cao, G. F. [1 ]
Cao, J. [1 ]
Carr, R. [5 ]
Chan, W. T. [3 ]
Chang, J. F. [1 ]
Chang, Y. [4 ]
Chasman, C. [3 ]
Chen, H. S. [1 ]
Chen, H. Y. [6 ]
Chen, S. J. [7 ]
Chen, S. M. [8 ]
Chen, X. C. [9 ]
Chen, X. H. [1 ]
Chen, X. S. [1 ]
Chen, Y. [10 ]
Chen, Y. X. [11 ]
Cherwinka, J. J. [2 ]
Chu, M. C. [9 ]
Cummings, J. P. [12 ]
Deng, Z. Y. [1 ]
Ding, Y. Y. [1 ]
Diwan, M. V. [3 ]
Dong, L. [1 ]
Draeger, E. [13 ]
Du, X. F. [1 ]
Dwyer, D. A. [5 ]
Edwards, W. R. [14 ]
Ely, S. R. [15 ]
Fang, S. D. [7 ]
Fu, J. Y. [1 ]
Fu, Z. W. [7 ]
Ge, L. Q. [16 ]
Ghazikhanian, V. [17 ]
Gill, R. L. [3 ]
Goett, J. [18 ]
Gonchar, M. [19 ]
Gong, G. H. [8 ]
Gong, H. [8 ]
Gornushkin, Y. A. [19 ]
机构
[1] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI USA
[3] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[4] Natl United Univ, Miaoli, Taiwan
[5] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[6] Natl Chiao Tung Univ, Inst Phys, Hsinchu, Taiwan
[7] Nanjing Univ, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Peoples R China
[8] Tsinghua Univ, Dept Engn Phys, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China
[9] Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
[10] Shenzhen Univ, Shen Zhen, Peoples R China
[11] N China Elect Power Univ, Beijing, Peoples R China
[12] Siena Coll, Loudonville, NY USA
[13] IIT, Dept Phys, Chicago, IL 60616 USA
[14] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[15] Univ Illinois, Dept Phys, Urbana, IL USA
[16] Chengdu Univ Technol, Chengdu, Peoples R China
[17] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA USA
[18] Rensselaer Polytech Inst, Dept Phys Appl Phys & Astron, Troy, NY USA
[19] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
[20] Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Shanghai 200030, Peoples R China
[21] Beijing Normal Univ, Beijing 100875, Peoples R China
[22] Princeton Univ, Joseph Henry Labs, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[23] Natl Taiwan Univ, Dept Phys, Taipei, Taiwan
[24] Virginia Tech, Ctr Neutrino Phys, Blacksburg, VA USA
[25] China Inst Atom Energy, Beijing, Peoples R China
[26] Univ Houston, Dept Phys, Houston, TX USA
[27] Shandong Univ, Jinan 250100, Peoples R China
[28] Nankai Univ, Dept Phys, Tianjin 300071, Peoples R China
[29] Univ Cincinnati, Dept Phys, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA
[30] Dongguan Inst Technol, Dongguan, Peoples R China
[31] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[32] Univ Hong Kong, Dept Phys, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
[33] Charles Univ Prague, Fac Math & Phys, Prague, Czech Republic
[34] Sun Yat Sen Zhongshan Univ, Guangzhou, Guangdong, Peoples R China
[35] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230026, Peoples R China
[36] Coll William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA USA
[37] China Guangdong Nucl Power Grp, Shenzhen, Peoples R China
[38] Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 美国能源部; 中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
LOADED LIQUID SCINTILLATOR; NEUTRON FISSION-PRODUCTS; REACTOR; SPECTRA; OSCILLATIONS; PU-239;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.171803
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has measured a nonzero value for the neutrino mixing angle 0(13) 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(2)2 theta(13) = 0.092 +/- 0.016(stat.) +/- 0.005(syst.) in a three-neutrino framework.
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