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Publications (67)

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…

physics.ins-det2015

JUNO Conceptual Design Report

T. Adam, F. An, G. An +347

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is proposed to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy using an underground liquid scintillator detector. It is located 53 km awa…

physics.ins-det2010

Belle II Technical Design Report

T. Abe, I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk +407

The Belle detector at the KEKB electron-positron collider has collected almost 1 billion Y(4S) events in its decade of operation. Super-KEKB, an upgrade of KEKB is under constructi…

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

Measurement of the tau Michel parameters and in the radiative leptonic decay

The Belle Collaboration, N. Shimizu, H. Aihara +460

We present a measurement of the Michel parameters of the lepton, and , in the radiative leptonic decay using 71…

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-ex2006

Improved Measurements of Color-Suppressed Decays B0bar -> D0 pi0, D0 eta, D0 omega, D*0 pi0, D*0 eta and D*0 omega

S. Blyth

We present improved measurements of the branching fractions of the color-suppressed decays where represents a light neutral meson , $…

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…

hep-ex2015

The Physics of the B Factories

A. J. Bevan, B. Golob, Th. Mannel +2003

This work is on the Physics of the B Factories. Part A of this book contains a brief description of the SLAC and KEK B Factories as well as their detectors, BaBar and Belle, and da…

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 Two-Body Production in the Energy Range from 10.77 to 11.02 GeV

A. Abdesselam, I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk +447

We report results on the studies of the processes. The results are based on a fb data sample collected with the Belle detector a…

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…

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-ex2009

Averages of b-hadron and c-hadron Properties at the End of 2007

E. Barberio, R. Bernhard, S. Blyth +31

This article reports world averages for measurements of b-hadron and c-hadron properties obtained by the Heavy Flavor Averaging Group (HFAG) using the results available at the end…

hep-ex2015

Measurement of Azimuthal Modulations in the Cross-Section of Di-Pion Pairs in Di-Jet Production from Electron-Positron Annihilation

A. Abdesselam, I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk +418

We present an extraction of azimuthal correlations between two pairs of charged pions detected in opposite jets from electron-positron annihilation. These correlations may arise fr…

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…

astro-ph.IM2019

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope White Paper; The Case for Matching U-band on Deep Drilling Fields

B. W. Holwerda, A. Baker, S. Blyth +12

U-band observations with the LSST have yet to be fully optimized in cadence. The straw man survey design is a simple coverage of the medium-deep-fast survey. Here we argue that dee…

hep-ex2012

Evidence for a Zb0(10610) in Dalitz analysis of Y(5S) -> Y(nS) pi0 pi0

I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk, H. Aihara +331

We report the first observation of Y(5S) -> Y(1,2S) pi0 pi0 decays. Evidence for the Zb0(10610) with 4.9sigma significance is found in a Dalitz plot analysis of Y(5S) -> Y(2S) pi0…

hep-ex2016

Observation of Transverse Hyperon Polarization in Annihilation at Belle

The Belle Collaboration, A. Abdesselam, I. Adachi +445

We report the first observation of the polarization of hyperons transverse to its production plane in annihilation. We observe a significant polarization that…

hep-ex2014

Averages of -hadron, -hadron, and -lepton properties as of summer 2014

Heavy Flavor Averaging Group, Y. Amhis, Sw. Banerjee +40

This article reports world averages of measurements of -hadron, -hadron, and -lepton properties obtained by the Heavy Flavor Averaging Group (HFAG) using results availabl…

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…

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-ex2016

Measurement of the branching ratio of relative to decays with a semileptonic tagging method

A. Abdesselam, I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk +441

We report a measurement of ratio , where d…

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-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-ex2015

Measurement of the amplitude ratio of and decays with a model-independent Dalitz plot analysis using decays

A. Abdesselam, I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk +409

We report a measurement of the amplitude ratio of and decays with a model-independent Dalitz plot analysis using $D\to K_S^0π^+…

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…

astro-ph.GA2017

The MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGHTEE) Survey

Matt J. Jarvis, A. R. Taylor, I. Agudo +54

The MIGHTEE large survey project will survey four of the most well-studied extragalactic deep fields, totalling 20 square degrees to Jy sensitivity at Giga-Hertz frequencies, a…

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-ex2012

Study of Three-Body Y(10860) Decays

I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk, H. Aihara +337

We report preliminary results on the analysis of the three-body Y(10860)=> B barB pi, Y(10860) => (B barB* + c.c.) pi and Y(10860)=> B* barB* pi decays including an observation of…

hep-ex2016

Study of χ_{bJ}(1P) Properties in the Radiative Υ(2S) Decays

A. Abdesselam, I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk +444

We report a study of radiative decays of χ_{bJ}(1P)(J=0,1,2) mesons into 74 hadronic final states comprising charged and neutral pions, kaons, protons; out of these, 41 modes are…

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

Evidence for the decay

A. Abdesselam, I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk +447

We report a search for with a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of containing pairs collect…

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…

hep-ex2016

Measurement of asymmetry in the decay at Belle

A. Abdesselam, I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk +447

We report a measurement of the time-integrated asymmetry in the neutral charm meson decay using 921~fb data collected at the and

physics.ins-det2012

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

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-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-ex2011

Averages of b-hadron, c-hadron, and tau-lepton Properties

The Heavy Flavor Averaging Group, D. Asner, Sw. Banerjee +36

This article reports world averages for measurements of b-hadron, c-hadron, and tau-lepton properties obtained by the Heavy Flavor Averaging Group (HFAG) using results available at…

astro-ph.GA2024

MHONGOOSE -- A MeerKAT Nearby Galaxy HI Survey

W. J. G. de Blok, J. Healy, F. M. Maccagni +57

The MHONGOOSE (MeerKAT HI Observations of Nearby Galactic Objects: Observing Southern Emitters) survey maps the distribution and kinematics of the neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) gas…

hep-ex2017

Precise determination of the CKM matrix element with decays with hadronic tagging at Belle

The Belle Collaboration, A. Abdesselam, I. Adachi +459

The precise determination of the CKM matrix element is important for carrying out tests of the flavour sector of the Standard Model. In this article we prese…

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-ex2019

Measurement of and with a semileptonic tagging method

The Belle Collaboration, A. Abdesselam, I. Adachi +461

We report a measurement of the ratios of branching fractions and $\mathcal{R}…

hep-ex2013

Averages of b-hadron, c-hadron, and tau-lepton properties as of early 2012

Heavy Flavor Averaging Group, Y. Amhis, Sw. Banerjee +40

This article reports world averages of measurements of b-hadron, c-hadron, and tau-lepton properties obtained by the Heavy Flavor Averaging Group (HFAG) using results available thr…

hep-ex2016

Measurement of Michel Parameters (, ) in the radiative leptonic decay of tau at Belle

The Belle Collaboration, A. Abdesselam, I. Adachi +445

We present the first measurement of the Michel parameters and in the radiative leptonic decay of the lepton using 703 f of data collected with…

hep-ex2016

Angular analysis of

Belle Collaboration, A. Abdesselam, I. Adachi +442

We present a measurement of angular observables, , , , , in the decay , where is either or $μ^…

hep-ex2006

Averages of b-hadron Properties at the End of 2005

Heavy Flavor Averaging Group, E. Barberio, I. Bizjak +26

This article reports world averages for measurements on b-hadron properties obtained by the Heavy Flavor Averaging Group (HFAG) using the available results as of at the end of 2005…

hep-ex2016

Measurement of the lepton polarization in the decay

A. Abdesselam, I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk +447

We report the first measurement of the lepton polarization in the decay as well as a new measurement of the ratio of the branching…

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-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…

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

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…

astro-ph.GA2020

Systematically Asymmetric: A comparison of \hi\ profile asymmetries in real and simulated galaxies

N. Deg, S. Blyth, N. Hank +2

We examine different measures of asymmetry for galaxy HI velocity profiles. We introduce the channel-by-channel asymmetry and the velocity-of-equality statistics to quantify profil…

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-ex2014

Measurement of the branching fraction of decays with the semileptonic tagging method and the full Belle data sample

Belle Collaboration, A. Abdesselam, I. Adachi +392

We report a measurement of the branching fraction of decays using a data sample of pairs, collected at the resonance with…

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-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…

astro-ph.GA2020

MIGHTEE: Are giant radio galaxies more common than we thought?

J. Delhaize, I. Heywood, M. Prescott +31

We report the discovery of two new giant radio galaxies (GRGs) using the MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGHTEE) survey. Both GRGs were found within a…

astro-ph.HE2017

ThunderKAT: The MeerKAT Large Survey Project for Image-Plane Radio Transients

R. Fender, P. A. Woudt, R. Armstrong +59

ThunderKAT is the image-plane transients programme for MeerKAT. The goal as outlined in 2010, and still today, is to find, identify and understand high-energy astrophysical process…

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…