Reactor antineutrino fluxes - status and challenges

Abstract

In this contribution we describe the current understanding of reactor antineutrino fluxes and point out some recent developments. This is not intended to be a complete review of this vast topic but merely a selection of observations and remarks, which despite their incompleteness, will highlight the status and the challenges of this field.

10 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables, prepared for the Nuclear Physics B special issue on Neutrino Oscillations celebrating the Nobel Prize in Physics 2015

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• Observation of electron-antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay
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