Improved measurement of the reactor antineutrino flux at Daya Bay
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This work reports a precise measurement of the reactor antineutrino flux using 2.2 million inverse beta decay (IBD) events collected with the Daya Bay near detectors in 1230 days. The dominant uncertainty on the neutron detection efficiency is reduced by 56% with respect to the previous measurement through a comprehensive neutron calibration and detailed data and simulation analysis. The new average IBD yield is determined to be (5.91±0.09)×10^(−43) cm^2/fission with total uncertainty improved by 29%. The corresponding mean fission fractions from the four main fission isotopes ^(235)U, ^(238)U, ^(239)Pu, and ^(241)Pu are 0.564, 0.076, 0.304, and 0.056, respectively. The ratio of measured to predicted antineutrino yield is found to be 0.952±0.014±0.023 (1.001±0.015±0.027) for the Huber-Mueller (ILL-Vogel) model, where the first and second uncertainty are experimental and theoretical model uncertainty, respectively. This measurement confirms the discrepancy between the world average of reactor antineutrino flux and the Huber-Mueller model.
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© 2019 Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3. Received 3 September 2018; published 9 September 2019. The Daya Bay Experiment is supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 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, the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, the Ministry of Education in Taiwan, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic, the Charles University Research Centre UNCE, 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 Guangdong Nuclear Power Group and China Light & Power Company.Attached Files
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- Ministry of Science and Technology (Taipei)
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- CAS Center for Excellence in Particle Physics
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Guangdong Provincial Government
- Shenzhen Municipal Government
- China General Nuclear Power Group
- Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
- Ministry of Education (Taipei)
- NSF
- Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic
- Charles University Research Centre
- Joint Institute of Nuclear Research (Dubna)
- NSFC-RFBR Joint Research Program
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research
- Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT)
- SCOAP3
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