Measurement of the Electron Antineutrino Oscillation with 1958 Days of Operation at Daya Bay

We report a measurement of electron antineutrino oscillation from the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment with nearly 4 million reactor ν[over ¯]_{e} inverse β decay candidates observed over 1958 days of data collection. The installation of a flash analog-to-digital converter readout system and a s...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2018-12, Vol.121 (24), p.241805-241805, Article 241805
Hauptverfasser: Adey, D, An, F P, Balantekin, A B, Band, H R, Bishai, M, Blyth, S, Cao, D, Cao, G F, Cao, J, Chan, Y L, Chang, J F, Chang, Y, Chen, H S, Chen, S M, Chen, Y, Chen, Y X, Cheng, J, Cheng, Z K, Cherwinka, J J, Chu, M C, Chukanov, A, Cummings, J P, Deng, F S, Ding, Y Y, Diwan, M V, Dolgareva, M, Dwyer, D A, Edwards, W R, Gonchar, M, Gong, G H, Gong, H, Gu, W Q, Guo, L, Guo, X H, Guo, Y H, Guo, Z, Hackenburg, R W, Hans, S, He, M, Heeger, K M, Heng, Y K, Higuera, A, Hsiung, Y B, Hu, B Z, Hu, J R, Hu, T, Hu, Z J, Huang, H X, Huang, X T, Huang, Y B, Huber, P, Huo, W, Hussain, G, Jaffe, D E, Jen, K L, Ji, X L, Ji, X P, Johnson, R A, Jones, D, Kang, L, Kettell, S H, Koerner, L W, Kohn, S, Kramer, M, Langford, T J, Lebanowski, L, Lee, J, Lee, J H C, Lei, R T, Leitner, R, Leung, J K C, Li, C, Li, F, Li, H L, Li, Q J, Li, S, Li, S C, Li, S J, Li, W D, Li, X N, Li, X Q, Li, Y F, Li, Z B, Liang, H, Lin, C J, Lin, G L, Lin, S, Lin, S K, Lin, Y-C, Ling, J J, Link, J M, Littenberg, L, Littlejohn, B R, Liu, J C, Liu, J L, Liu, Y, Liu, Y H, Loh, C W, Lu, C, Lu, H Q
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Zusammenfassung:We report a measurement of electron antineutrino oscillation from the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment with nearly 4 million reactor ν[over ¯]_{e} inverse β decay candidates observed over 1958 days of data collection. The installation of a flash analog-to-digital converter 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 ν[over ¯]_{e} rates and energy spectra among detectors yields sin^{2}2θ_{13}=0.0856±0.0029 and Δm_{32}^{2}=(2.471_{-0.070}^{+0.068})×10^{-3}  eV^{2} assuming the normal hierarchy, and Δm_{32}^{2}=-(2.575_{-0.070}^{+0.068})×10^{-3}  eV^{2} assuming the inverted hierarchy.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.241805