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Publications (37)

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.…

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-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-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-ex2012

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…

astro-ph.HE2020

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…

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…

hep-ex2012

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…

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-ph2019

Sensitivity to neutrino-antineutrino transitions for boron neutrinos

S. J. Li, J. J. Ling, N. Raper +1

Neutrino-antineutrino conversion is an important new physics process. The observation of this phenomenon could indicate total lepton number violation and potential CPT-violation. S…

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…

physics.ins-det2014

The Water Purification System for the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment

J. Wilhelmi, R. Bopp, R. Brown +21

We describe the design, installation, and operation of a purification system that is able to provide large volumes of high purity ASTM (D1193-91) Type-I water to a high energy phys…

hep-ex2020

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…

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…

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-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-ex2022

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…

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-ex2022

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…

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…

physics.ins-det2020

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…

hep-ex2024

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…

nucl-ex2024

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…

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-ex2024

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…

hep-ph2024

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…

nucl-ex2022

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…

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).

nucl-ex2025

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…

hep-ex2021

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…

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…