Short and Medium Baseline Reactor Neutrino Experiments

Marcos Dracos (1)

1 IPHC - Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien

Reactor neutrino experiments allowed during the last years to observe that the last unmeasured neutrino oscillation mixing angle θ13 not only was different from zero but also this angle was relatively large and just below the previous limits. Some anomalies have then been observed related to the expectations on reactor neutrino flux and to the shape of the neutrino spectrum. These anomalies are still under investigation by very short baseline reactor neutrino experiments. The observed large value of θ13 allows now the observation of an eventual CP violation in the leptonic sector, but also to be sensitive to the neutrino mass hierarchy using medium baseline reactor neutrino experiments.

Mots clés: Neutrino oscillations; mass hierarchy; reactor neutrinos; short baseline; medium baseline; talk: Guangzhou 2017/08/07; neutrino: nuclear reactor; neutrino: oscillation; neutrino: energy spectrum; neutrino: flux; neutrino: mass: hierarchy; sensitivity; CP: violation; asymmetry: CP; anomaly; neutrino: mixing angle; experimental results

Domaines: Physique des Hautes Energies - Expérience [hep-ex]; Instrumentations et Détecteurs [physics.ins-det]

Marcos Dracos. Short and Medium Baseline Reactor Neutrino Experiments. 28th International Symposium on Lepton Photon Interactions at High Energies, Aug 2017, Guangzhou, China. pp.84-98, ⟨10.1142/9789811207402_0006⟩. ⟨hal-02536155⟩