Publications (7)
Exploring Current Constraints on Antineutrino Production by Pu and Paths Towards the Precision Reactor Flux Era
Yoshi Fujikake, Bryce Littlejohn, Ohana B. Rodrigues +1
By performing global fits to inverse beta decay (IBD) yield measurements from existing neutrino experiments based at highly U enriched reactor cores and conventional low-en…
Nu Tools: Exploring Practical Roles for Neutrinos in Nuclear Energy and Security
Oluwatomi Akindele, Nathaniel Bowden, Rachel Carr +11
For decades, physicists have used neutrinos from nuclear reactors to advance basic science. These pursuits have inspired many ideas for application of neutrino detectors in nuclear…
Neutron Reconstruction via Blips in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers
Miguel Hernandez Morquecho, Bryce Littlejohn, Paola Sala +1
Neutrons are important final-state particles in neutrino interactions, yet they are not considered or reconstructed in most current neutrino LArTPC physics analyses. In this paper,…
CONFLUX: A Standardized Framework to Calculate Reactor Antineutrino Flux
Xianyi Zhang, Anosh Irani, Michael P. Mendenhall +6
Nuclear fission reactors are abundant sources of antineutrinos. The flux and spectrum of antineutrinos emitted by a reactor can indicate its activity and composition, suggesting po…
Nuclear Data to Reduce Uncertainties in Reactor Antineutrino Measurements: Summary Report of the Workshop on Nuclear Data for Reactor Antineutrino Measurements (WoNDRAM)
Catherine Romano, Nathaniel Bowden, Andrew Conant +10
The large quantities of antineutrinos produced through the decay of fission fragments in nuclear reactors provide an opportunity to study the properties of these particles and inve…
UV Degradation of the Optical Properties of Acrylic for Neutrino and Dark Matter Experiments
Bryce Littlejohn, K. M. Heeger, T. Wise +2
UV-transmitting (UVT) acrylic is a commonly used light-propagating material in neutrino and dark matter detectors as it has low intrinsic radioactivity and exhibits low absorption…
Towards a Robust Exclusion of the Sterile-Neutrino Explanation of Short-Baseline Anomalies
Ohana Benevides Rodrigues, Matheus Hostert, Kevin J. Kelly +4
The sterile neutrino interpretation of the LSND and MiniBooNE neutrino anomalies is currently being tested at three Liquid Argon detectors: MicroBooNE, SBND, and ICARUS. It has bee…