Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly tagged posts

The Daya Bay experiment measures the antineutrinos produced by the reactors of the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant and the Ling Ao Nuclear Power Plant in mainland China. The photo shows a panoramic view of the Daya Bay reactor complex. Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt, Berkeley Lab

Members of the International Daya Bay Collaboration, who track the production and flavor-shifting behavior of electron antineutrinos generated at a nuclear power complex in China, have obtained the most precise measurement of these subatomic particles’ energy spectrum ever recorded. The data generated from the world’s largest sample of reactor antineutrinos indicate 2 intriguing discrepancies with theoretical predictions and provide an important measurement that will shape future reactor neutrino experiments.

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