Inverse-square law violation and reactor antineutrino anomaly

Abstract

We discuss a possibility that the so-called reactor antineutrino anomaly can be, at least in part, explained by applying a quantum field-theoretical approach to neutrino oscillations, which in particular predicts a small deviation from the classical inverse-square law at short but macroscopic distances between the neutrino source and detector. An extensive statistical analysis of the reactor data is performed to examine this speculation.

15 pages, 6 figures, Talk at the International Workshop on Prospects of Particle Physics: "Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics", Valday, Russia, February 1-8, 2015