Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2022
Volume 67, Number 6
Saturday–Tuesday, April 9–12, 2022; New York
Session Y08: New Techniques in Neutrino Physics I
1:30 PM–3:06 PM,
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Room: Juilliard
Sponsoring
Unit:
DPF
Chair: Guang Yang, University of California, Berkeley
Abstract: Y08.00003 : Precise Measurement of Reactor Antineutrino Spectra from Joint Analyses of PROSPECT, STEREO, and Daya Bay*
1:54 PM–2:06 PM
Presenter:
Benjamin T Foust
(Yale University)
Author:
Benjamin T Foust
(Yale University)
Collaboration:
PROSPECT
PROSPECT and STEREO have made modern measurements of antineutrinos at highly enriched uranium (HEU) research reactors where over 99\% of the antineutrino flux comes from $^{235}$U, while the Daya Bay experiment has studied antineutrino emission at commercial power reactors which use a mixture of fissile isotopes.
Recently PROSPECT has performed joint analyses with Daya Bay and STEREO yielding the most precise determination of the measured $^{235}$U reactor antineutrino spectrum.
The work with STEREO directly combines the two pure $^{235}$U measurements and jointly unfolds the spectra to provide and improved result in antineutrino energy, independent of assumptions regarding other isotopes' contributions.
PROSPECT's combination with the high-statistics measurement from Daya Bay improves the deconvolution of the power reactor spectrum to obtain a more precise unfolded $^{235}$U antineutrino spectrum.
In this talk, I will present the results of both analyses.
*This work is supported by the US DOE Office of High Energy Physics, the Heising-Simons Foundation, CFREF and NSERC of Canada, and internal investments at all institutions.
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