Observation of Reactor Antineutrino Disappearance Using Delayed Neutron Capture on Hydrogen at RENO

Abstract

The Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation (RENO) experiment has been taking data using two identical liquid scintillator detectors of 44.5 tons since August 2011. The experiment has observed the disappearance of reactor neutrinos in their interactions with free protons, followed by neutron capture on hydrogen. Based on 1500 live days of data taken with 16.8 GW${}_{th}$ reactors at the Hanbit Nuclear Power Plant in Korea, the near (far) detector observes 567690 (90747) electron antineutrino candidate events with a delayed neutron capture on hydrogen. This provides an independent measurement of ${\theta }_{13}$ and a consistency check on the validity of the result from n-Gd data. Furthermore, it provides an important cross-check on the systematic uncertainties of the n-Gd measurement. Based on a rate-only analysis, we obtain sin${}^2$2${\theta }_{13}$= 0.087 $\pm$ 0.008 (stat.) $\pm$ 0.014 (syst.).

arXiv comment26 pages, 19 figures, 6 tables

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