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Publications (24)

hep-ex2018

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.…

physics.ins-det2016

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…

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2018

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…

hep-ex2017

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…

hep-ex2018

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…

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2020

Note on arXiv:2005.05301, 'Preparation of the Neutrino-4 experiment on search for sterile neutrino and the obtained results of measurements'

H. Almazán, M. Andriamirado, A. B. Balantekin +79

We comment on the claimed observation [arXiv:arXiv:2005.05301] of sterile neutrino oscillations by the Neutrino-4 collaboration. Such a claim, which requires the existence of a new…

hep-ex2019

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…

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2020

Improved Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Search and Energy Spectrum Measurement with the PROSPECT Experiment at HFIR

M. Andriamirado, A. B. Balantekin, H. R. Band +61

We present a detailed report on sterile neutrino oscillation and U-235 antineutrino energy spectrum measurement results from the PROSPECT experiment at the highly enriched High Flu…

nucl-ex2020

Nonfuel Antineutrino Contributions in the High Flux Isotope Reactor

A. B. Balantekin, H. R. Band, C. D. Bass +53

Reactor neutrino experiments have seen major improvements in precision in recent years. With the experimental uncertainties becoming lower than those from theory, carefully conside…

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2016

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…

physics.ins-det2018

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…

hep-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2014

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…

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2019

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).

hep-ex2016

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…

hep-ex2018

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…

physics.ins-det2019

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…

hep-ex2017

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…