PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 367 - XXIX International Symposium on Lepton Photon Interactions at High Energies (LeptonPhoton2019) - Parallel Sessions
New results from the DANSS experiment
Y. Shitov*  on behalf of the DANSS collaboration
Full text: pdf
Pre-published on: November 21, 2019
Published on: December 17, 2019
Abstract
The DANSS is a highly segmented m$^3$ $\bar{\nu}$-spectrometer aimed
to search for SBL sterile neutrino oscillations in the reactor sector,
as well as to solve applied tasks of monitoring the power and fuel
composition of a nuclear reactor~\cite{Alekseev:2018efk}. The detector
measures the $\bar{\nu}$-spectrum by the IBD method from an industrial
nuclear reactor (3.1 GW$_{th}$, KNNP, Rusia) at distances 10.7-12.7~m
from the core using a mobile platform. The search for sterile
neutrino oscillations is carried out through the analysis of the
bin-per-bin ratios of the positron energy spectra collected at
different distances from the reactor. This relative method is free
from systematic errors associated with the calculation of the reactor
antineutrino spectra and detector efficiency.

The new results of the DANSS experiment are presented here based on
more than 2.1 million events collected in 2016-2019 (2.4-fold increase
over published data~\cite{Alekseev:2018efk}). With the current full
data set we do not have a statistically significant sign of the
sterile neutrino oscillations excluding further the large and
interesting portion of the $3\nu + 1\nu$ model phase space. The
DANSS's abilities to measure nuclear fuel composition and to monitor
reactor power at high precision (with 1.5/0.5\%
statistical/systematical uncertainties reached in 2 days of exposure) in
long-term scale (during 17 months) have been also undoubtedly
demonstrated.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.367.0056
How to cite

Metadata are provided both in "article" format (very similar to INSPIRE) as this helps creating very compact bibliographies which can be beneficial to authors and readers, and in "proceeding" format which is more detailed and complete.

Open Access
Creative Commons LicenseCopyright owned by the author(s) under the term of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.