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Reactor neutrino experiments: θ₁₃ and beyond

Xin Qian

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA

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Wei Wang

Physics Department, College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA 23187, USA

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Abstract

We review the current-generation short-baseline reactor neutrino experiments that have firmly established the third neutrino mixing angle θ₁₃ to be nonzero. The relative large value of θ₁₃ (around 9°) has opened many new and exciting opportunities for future neutrino experiments. Daya Bay experiment with the first measurement of is aiming for a precision measurement of this atmospheric mass-squared splitting with a comparable precision as from accelerator muon neutrino experiments. JUNO, a next-generation reactor neutrino experiment, is targeting to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy (MH) with medium baselines (~ 50 km). Beside these opportunities enabled by the large θ₁₃, the current-generation (Daya Bay, Double Chooz, and RENO) and the next-generation (JUNO, RENO-50, and PROSPECT) reactor experiments, with their unprecedented statistics, are also leading the precision era of the three-flavor neutrino oscillation physics as well as constraining new physics beyond the neutrino Standard Model.

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