Publications (64)
Parallel field magnetoresistance in topological insulator thin films
C. J. Lin, X. Y. He, J. Liao +11
We report that the finite thickness of three-dimensional topological insulator (TI) thin films produces an observable magnetoresistance (MR) in phase coherent transport in parallel…
Search for a Light Sterile Neutrino at Daya Bay
F. P. An, A. B. Balantekin, H. R. Band +230
A search for light sterile neutrino mixing was performed with the first 217 days of data from the Daya Bay Reactor Antineutrino Experiment. The experiment's unique configuration of…
Assembly and Installation of the Daya Bay Antineutrino Detectors
H. R. Band, R. L. Brown, R. Carr +66
The Daya Bay reactor antineutrino experiment is designed to make a precision measurement of the neutrino mixing angle theta13, and recently made the definitive discovery of its non…
Extraction of the U and Pu Antineutrino Spectra at Daya Bay
Daya Bay collaboration, D. Adey, F. P. An +190
This Letter reports the first extraction of individual antineutrino spectra from U and Pu fission and an improved measurement of the prompt energy spectrum of react…
Experimentally well-constrained masses of P and S: Implications for studies of explosive binary systems
L. J. Sun, X. X. Xu, S. Q. Hou +58
The mass of P was predicted to impact the X-ray burst (XRB) model predictions of burst light curves and the composition of the burst ashes. To address the uncertainties and…
A Combination of CDF and DO Limits on the Branching Ratio of B_s(d) to mu+ mu- Decays
R. Bernhard, D. Glenzinski, M. Herndon +6
We combine the results of CDF and DO searches for the rare decays B_s to mu+ mu- and B_d to mu+ mu-. The experiments use 364 pb-1 and 300 pb-1 of data respectively. The limits on t…
Improved Measurement of Electron Antineutrino Disappearance at Daya Bay
Daya Bay Collaboration, F. P. An, Q. An +227
We report an improved measurement of the neutrino mixing angle from the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment. We exclude a zero value for with a signific…
Search For Electron-Antineutrinos Associated With Gravitational-Wave Events GW150914, GW151012, GW151226, GW170104, GW170608, GW170814, and GW170817 at Daya Bay
F. P. An, A. B. Balantekin, H. R. Band +181
Providing a possible connection between neutrino emission and gravitational-wave (GW) bursts is important to our understanding of the physical processes that occur when black holes…
Light-weight Flexible Magnetic Shields For Large-Aperture Photomultiplier Tubes
P. DeVore, D. Escontrias, T. Koblesky +11
Thin flexible sheets of high-permeability FINEMET foils encased in thin plastic layers have been used to shield various types of 20-cm-diameter photomultiplier tubes from ambient m…
Observation of electron-antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay
F. P. An, J. Z. Bai, A. B. Balantekin +264
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has measured a non-zero value for the neutrino mixing angle with a significance of 5.2 standard deviations. Antineutrinos from si…
A new measurement of antineutrino oscillation with the full detector configuration at Daya Bay
Daya Bay Collaboration, F. P. An, A. B. Balantekin +214
We report a new measurement of electron antineutrino disappearance using the fully-constructed Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment. The final two of eight antineutrino detectors w…
Spectral measurement of electron antineutrino oscillation amplitude and frequency at Daya Bay
Daya Bay Collaboration, F. P. An, A. B. Balantekin +235
A measurement of the energy dependence of antineutrino disappearance at the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment is reported. Electron antineutrinos () from six $2…
Sub-barrier fusion of 32S+90,96Zr: semi-classical coupled-channels approach
H. Q. Zhang, C. J. Lin, F. Yang +8
The fusion excitation functions have been measured with rather good accuracy for 32S+90Zr and 32S+96Zr near and below the Coulomb barrier. The sub-barrier cross sections for 32S+96…
Competition between fusion-fission and quasifission processes in the S+W reactions
H. Q. Zhang, C. L. Zhang, C. J. Lin +6
The angular distributions of fission fragments for the S+W reaction at center-of-mass energies of 118.8, 123.1, 127.3, 131.5, 135.8, 141.1 and 144.4 MeV were measure…
Improved Measurement of the Reactor Antineutrino Flux and Spectrum at Daya Bay
F. P. An, A. B. Balantekin, H. R. Band +217
A new measurement of the reactor antineutrino flux and energy spectrum by the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment is reported. The antineutrinos were generated by six 2.9~GW$_{\ma…
Single Crystal Growth and Spin Polarization Measurements of Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor (BaK)(ZnMn)2As2
G. Q. Zhao, C. J. Lin, Z. Deng +7
Recently a new type diluted magnetic semiconductor (BaK)(ZnMn)2As2 (BZA) with high Cure temperature (Tc) was discovered showing independent spin and charge doping mechanism. This m…
Influence of entrance-channel magicity and isospin on quasi-fission
Cédric Simenel, D. J. Hinde, R. Du Rietz +5
The role of spherical quantum shells in the competition between fusion and quasi-fission is studied for reactions forming heavy elements. Measurements of fission fragment mass dist…
Search for a time-varying electron antineutrino signal at Daya Bay
Daya Bay Collaboration, D. Adey, F. P. An +196
A search for a time-varying signal was performed with 621 days of data acquired by the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment over 704 calendar days. The time spectrum o…
Precision measurement of reactor antineutrino oscillation at kilometer-scale baselines by Daya Bay
Daya Bay collaboration, F. P. An, W. D. Bai +197
We present a new determination of the smallest neutrino mixing angle and the mass-squared difference using a final sample of inv…
Limits on Active to Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments
Daya Bay, MINOS Collaborations, : +329
Searches for a light sterile neutrino have been performed independently by the MINOS and the Daya Bay experiments using the muon (anti)neutrino and electron antineutrino disappeara…
First measurement of high-energy reactor antineutrinos at Daya Bay
Daya Bay collaboration, F. P. An, A. B. Balantekin +182
This Letter reports the first measurement of high-energy reactor antineutrinos at Daya Bay, with nearly 9000 inverse beta decay candidates in the prompt energy region of 8-12~MeV o…
Optimization of the JUNO liquid scintillator composition using a Daya Bay antineutrino detector
Daya Bay, JUNO collaborations, : +646
To maximize the light yield of the liquid scintillator (LS) for the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), a 20 t LS sample was produced in a pilot plant at Daya Bay. Th…
Search for a sub-eV sterile neutrino using Daya Bay's full dataset
F. P. An, W. D. Bai, A. B. Balantekin +196
This Letter presents results of a search for the mixing of a sub-eV sterile neutrino with three active neutrinos based on the full data sample of the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Expe…
First measurement of the yield of He isotopes produced in liquid scintillator by cosmic-ray muons at Daya Bay
Daya Bay Collaboration, F. P. An, W. D. Bai +197
Daya Bay presents the first measurement of cosmogenic He isotope production in liquid scintillator, using an innovative method for identifying cascade decays of He and its…
Selective decay from a candidate of the -bond linear-chain state in C
J. Li, Y. L. Ye, Z. H. Li +23
A cluster-transfer experiment Be(Be,C+Be) was carried out using an incident beam energy of 45 MeV. This reaction channel has a large -…
Beta-decay study of proton-rich nucleus Mg
L. J. Sun, X. X. Xu, C. J. Lin +32
The decay of the drip-line nucleus Mg gives important information on resonances in Na, which are relevant for the astrophysical -process. A detailed dec…
Properties of Valence Nucleon Distributions for Halo Nuclei
C. J. Lin, H. Q. Zhang, Z. H. Liu +3
With the binding energies and configurations determined experimentally, the root-mean-square radii are calculated for a number of single-particle states by numerically solving the…
Measurement of electron antineutrino oscillation based on 1230 days of operation of the Daya Bay experiment
Daya Bay Collaboration, F. P. An, A. B. Balantekin +218
A measurement of electron antineutrino oscillation by the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment is described in detail. Six 2.9-GW nuclear power reactors of the Daya Bay…
Response to Comment on Daya Bay's definition and use of Delta(m^2_ee)
The Day Bay Collaboration, D. Adey, F. P. An +190
The Daya Bay Collaboration responds to comments posted by S. Parke and R. Zukanovich Funchal regarding our use of Delta(m^2_ee).
Measurement of electron antineutrino oscillation with 1958 days of operation at Daya Bay
Daya Bay Collaboration, D. Adey, F. P. An +199
We report a measurement of electron antineutrino oscillation from the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment with nearly 4 million reactor inverse beta decay candid…
The decay characteristic of Si and its ground-state mass significantly affected by three-nucleon forces
X. X. Xu, C. J. Lin, L. J. Sun +42
The decay of the proton-rich nucleus Si was studied by a silicon array coupled with germanium clover detectors. Nine charged-particle groups are observed and most of them ar…
Constraint on the Ground-state Mass of 21Al and Three-Nucleon Forces
X. Z. Teng, C. E. Teh, J. Lee +24
Fragmentation cross section of Si + Be reaction at 75.8 MeV/u was analyzed for studying the decay mode of single-proton emission in Al (the proton-rich nucleus…
Cluster Decay of the High-lying excited states in C
Z. Y. Tian, Y. L. Ye, Z. H. Li +23
A cluster-transfer experiment of at an incident energy of 45 MeV was carried out in order to investigate the molecula…
Determination of the cluster-decay branching ratio from a near-threshold molecular state in Be
W. Jiang, Y. L. Ye, C. J. Lin +27
A puzzle has long existed for the -cluster content in the near-threshold 7.54 MeV state of Be. A new measurement was conducted to measure the cluster-decay partial width…
A side-by-side comparison of Daya Bay antineutrino detectors
Daya Bay Collaboration, F. P. An, Q. An +237
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment is designed to determine precisely the neutrino mixing angle with a sensitivity better than 0.01 in the parameter sin…
Improved Measurement of the Reactor Antineutrino Flux at Daya Bay
Daya Bay Collaboration, D. Adey, F. P. An +197
This work reports a precise measurement of the reactor antineutrino flux using 2.2 million inverse beta decay (IBD) events collected with the Daya Bay near detectors in 1230 days.…
Evolution of the Reactor Antineutrino Flux and Spectrum at Daya Bay
F. P. An, A. B. Balantekin, H. R. Band +200
The Daya Bay experiment has observed correlations between reactor core fuel evolution and changes in the reactor antineutrino flux and energy spectrum. Four antineutrino detectors…
Neutrinos
A. de Gouvea, K. Pitts, K. Scholberg +164
This document represents the response of the Intensity Frontier Neutrino Working Group to the Snowmass charge. We summarize the current status of neutrino physics and identify many…
Fine structure in the decay of U
M. D. Sun, Z. Liu, T. H. Huang +29
Fine structure in the decay of U was observed in the fusion-evaporation reaction Re(Ar, p3n) by using fast digital pulse processing technique. Two -…
Beta-decay spectroscopy of S
L. J. Sun, X. X. Xu, S. Q. Hou +55
Background: Beta-decay spectroscopy provides valuable nuclear physics input for thermonuclear reaction rates of astrophysical interest and stringent test for shell-model theories f…
Study of the wave packet treatment of neutrino oscillation at Daya Bay
F. P. An, A. B. Balantekin, H. R. Band +215
The disappearance of reactor observed by the Daya Bay experiment is examined in the framework of a model in which the neutrino is described by a wave packet with a relat…
Seasonal Variation of the Underground Cosmic Muon Flux Observed at Daya Bay
F. P. An, A. B. Balantekin, H. R. Band +199
The Daya Bay Experiment consists of eight identically designed detectors located in three underground experimental halls named as EH1, EH2, EH3, with 250, 265 and 860 meters of wat…
LArPix: Demonstration of low-power 3D pixelated charge readout for liquid argon time projection chambers
D. A. Dwyer, M. Garcia-Sciveres, D. Gnani +10
We report the demonstration of a low-power pixelated readout system designed for three-dimensional ionization charge detection and digital readout of liquid argon time projection c…
New measurement of via neutron capture on hydrogen at Daya Bay
Daya Bay Collaboration, F. P. An, A. B. Balantekin +223
This article reports an improved independent measurement of neutrino mixing angle at the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment. Electron antineutrinos were identified by i…
Improved Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Mixing from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, MINOS+, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments
Daya Bay, MINOS+ Collaborations, : +263
Searches for electron antineutrino, muon neutrino, and muon antineutrino disappearance driven by sterile neutrino mixing have been carried out by the Daya Bay and MINOS+ collaborat…
The self-consistent analysis for sub-barrier fusion enhancement effect in Ca + Ca and Ni + Ni
N. R. Ma, H. M. Jia, C. J. Lin +8
The fusion dynamic mechanism of heavy-ions at energies near the Coulomb barrier is complicated and still not very clear up to now. Accordingly, a self-consistent method based on th…
Upper Limit on the molecular resonance strengths in the C+C fusion reaction
X. Tang, X. Fang, B. Bucher +4
Carbon burning is a crucial process for a number of important astrophysical scenarios. The lowest measured energy is around E=2.1 MeV, only partially overlapping with…
Simultaneous measurement of beta-delayed proton and gamma emission of P for Al()Si reaction rate
P. F. Liang, L. J. Sun, J. Lee +53
decay of P was used to populate the astrophysically important 5929.4(8) keV state of Si. Both -delayed proton at 418(8) keV and gamma ray…
Effects of Nuclear Structure on Quasi-fission
Cédric Simenel, A. Wakhle, Benoît Avez +6
The quasi-fission mechanism hinders fusion of heavy systems because of a mass flow between the reactants, leading to a re-separation of more symmetric fragments in the exit channel…
Obvious enhancement of the total reaction cross sections for P with Si target and the possible relavent mechanisms
Z. H. Liu, M. Ruan, Y. L. Zhao +13
The reaction cross sections of P and the corresponding isotones on Si target were measured at intermediate energies. The measured reaction cross sections of the N=12 and…
The Detector System of The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment
F. P. An, J. Z. Bai, A. B. Balantekin +330
The Daya Bay experiment was the first to report simultaneous measurements of reactor antineutrinos at multiple baselines leading to the discovery of oscillations over km…
Cosmogenic neutron production at Daya Bay
Daya Bay Collaboration, F. P. An, A. B. Balantekin +197
Neutrons produced by cosmic ray muons are an important background for underground experiments studying neutrino oscillations, neutrinoless double beta decay, dark matter, and other…
Neutrino mass hierarchy determination and other physics potential of medium-baseline reactor neutrino oscillation experiments
A. B. Balantekin, H. Band, R. Betts +25
Medium-baseline reactor neutrino oscillation experiments (MBRO) have been proposed to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy (MH) and to make precise measurements of the neutrino os…
Improved Search for a Light Sterile Neutrino with the Full Configuration of the Daya Bay Experiment
The Daya Bay collaboration, F. P. An, A. B. Balantekin +218
This Letter reports an improved search for light sterile neutrino mixing in the electron antineutrino disappearance channel with the full configuration of the Daya Bay Reactor Neut…
Measurement of the Reactor Antineutrino Flux and Spectrum at Daya Bay
Daya Bay Collaboration, F. P. An, A. B. Balantekin +220
This Letter reports a measurement of the flux and energy spectrum of electron antineutrinos from six 2.9~GW nuclear reactors with six detectors deployed in two near (effecti…
Constraining the C+C astrophysical S-factors with the C+C measurements at very low energies
N. T. Zhang, X. Y. Wang, H. Chen +24
We use an underground counting lab with an extremely low background to perform an activity measurement for the C+C system with energies down to =2.323 Me…
Independent Measurement of Theta13 via Neutron Capture on Hydrogen at Daya Bay
Daya Bay Collaboration, F. P. An, A. B. Balantekin +230
A new measurement of the mixing angle has been obtained at the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment via the detection of inverse beta decays tagged by neutron capture on…
Potential roots of the deep sub-barrier heavy-ion fusion hindrance phenomenon
P. W. Wen, C. J. Lin, R. G. Nazmitdinov +6
We analyse the origin of the unexpected deep sub-barrier heavy-ion fusion hindrance in 64Ni+100Mo and 28Si+64Ni recations. Our analysis is based on the improved coupled-channels ap…
Measurement of Electron Antineutrino Oscillation Amplitude and Frequency via Neutron Capture on Hydrogen at Daya Bay
Daya Bay collaboration, F. P. An, W. D. Bai +197
This Letter reports the first measurement of the oscillation amplitude and frequency of reactor antineutrinos at Daya Bay via neutron capture on hydrogen using 1958 days of data. W…
Charged-current non-standard neutrino interactions at Daya Bay
Daya Bay collaboration, F. P. An, W. D. Bai +197
The full data set of the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment is used to probe the effect of the charged current non-standard interactions (CC-NSI) on neutrino oscillation experime…
Joint Determination of Reactor Antineutrino Spectra from U and Pu Fission by Daya Bay and PROSPECT
Daya Bay Collaboration, PROSPECT Collaboration, F. P. An +237
A joint determination of the reactor antineutrino spectra resulting from the fission of U and Pu has been carried out by the Daya Bay and PROSPECT collaborations. T…
Comprehensive Measurement of the Reactor Antineutrino Spectrum and Flux at Daya Bay
F. P. An, W. D. Bai, A. B. Balantekin +196
This Letter reports the precise measurement of reactor antineutrino spectrum and flux based on the full data set of 4.7 million inverse-beta-decay (IBD) candidates collected at Day…
Antineutrino Energy Spectrum Unfolding Based on the Daya Bay Measurement and Its Applications
Daya Bay collaboration, F. P. An, A. B. Balantekin +182
The prediction of reactor antineutrino spectra will play a crucial role as reactor experiments enter the precision era. The positron energy spectrum of 3.5 million antineutrino inv…
A high precision calibration of the nonlinear energy response at Daya Bay
Daya Bay collaboration, D. Adey, F. P. An +192
A high precision calibration of the nonlinearity in the energy response of the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment's antineutrino detectors is presented in detail. The energy nonl…