Evidence of Antineutrinos from Distant Reactors Using Pure Water at SNO+

Publikation: Beitrag in FachzeitschriftForschungsartikelBeigetragenBegutachtung

Beitragende

  • (The SNO+ Collaboration) - (Autor:in)
  • Professur für Kernphysik
  • Queen's University Kingston
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • Universidade de Lisboa
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • University of Alberta
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Laurentian University
  • University of Sussex
  • SNOLAB
  • University of Oxford
  • The University of Chicago
  • University of Liverpool (UOL)
  • Technische Universität Dresden
  • King's College London (KCL)
  • Boston University
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • TRIUMF
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Abstract

The SNO+ Collaboration reports the first evidence of reactor antineutrinos in a Cherenkov detector. The nearest nuclear reactors are located 240 km away in Ontario, Canada. This analysis uses events with energies lower than in any previous analysis with a large water Cherenkov detector. Two analytical methods are used to distinguish reactor antineutrinos from background events in 190 days of data and yield consistent evidence for antineutrinos with a combined significance of 3.5σ.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer091801
FachzeitschriftPhysical review letters
Jahrgang130
Ausgabenummer9
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 3 März 2023
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

PubMed 36930908

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