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Reactor antineutrino experiments

Haoqi Lu

Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuquan Road 19-B, Beijing 100049, China

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Abstract

Neutrinos are elementary particles in the standard model of particle physics. There are three flavors of neutrinos that oscillate among themselves. Their oscillation can be described by a 3×3 unitary matrix, containing three mixing angles θ₁₂, θ₂₃, θ₁₃, and one CP phase. Both θ₁₂ and θ₂₃ are known from previous experiments. θ₁₃ was unknown just two years ago. The Daya Bay experiment gave the first definitive nonzero value in 2012. An improved measurement of the oscillation amplitude and the first direct measurement of the mass-squared difference were obtained recently. The large value of θ₁₃ boosts the next generation of reactor antineutrino experiments designed to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy, such as JUNO and RENO-50.

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PACS: 14.60.Pq, 29.40.Mc, 13.15.+g

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