Review of Reactor Antineutrino Experiments

Abstract

As discussed elsewhere, the measurement of a non-zero value for ${\theta }_{13}$ would open up a wide range of possibilities to explore CP-violation and the mass hierarchy. Experimental methods to measure currently the unknown mixing angle ${\theta }_{13}$ include accelerator searches for the ${\nu }_e$ appearance and precise measurements of reactor antineutrino disappearance. The reactor antineutrino experiments are designed to search for a non-vanishing mixing angle ${\theta }_{13}$ with unprecedented sensitivity. This document describes current reactor antineutrino experiments and synergy between accelerator searches for the ${\nu }_e$ appearance and precise measurements of reactor antineutrino disappearance.

8 pages, 2 figures, Review talk given at NuFact 2011, XIIIth InternationalWorkshop on Neutrino Factories, Super beams and Beta beams, CERN/UNIGE, Geneva, Switzerland, August 1-6, 2011

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