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most citedImproved Sterile Neutrino Constraints from the STEREO Experiment with 179 Days of Reactor-On Data

113 citations · 726 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

hep-ex2025★ 3 cited

First measurement of reactor neutrino oscillations at JUNO

Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam, Kai Adamowicz +1131

Neutrino oscillations, a quantum effect manifesting at macroscopic scales, are governed by lepton flavor mixing angles and neutrino mass-squared differences that are fundamental pa…

hep-ex2025★ 1 cited

Initial performance results of the JUNO detector

Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam, Kai Adamowicz +1131

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) started physics data taking on 26 August 2025. JUNO consists of a 20-kton liquid scintillator central detector, surrounded by a…

hep-ex2024★ 26 cited

Final CONUS results on coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering at the Brokdorf reactor

N. Ackermann, H. Bonet, A. Bonhomme +13

The Conus experiment studies coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering in four 1 kg germanium spectrometers. Low ionization energy thresholds of 210 eV were achieved. The detect…

physics.ins-det2023★ 12 cited

Pulse shape discrimination for the CONUS experiment in the keV and sub-keV regime

H. Bonet, A. Bonhomme, C. Buck +12

Point-contact p-type high-purity germanium detectors (PPC HPGe) are particularly suited for detection of sub-keV nuclear recoils from coherent elastic scattering of neutrinos or li…

hep-ex2022★ 71 cited

Stereo neutrino spectrum of 235U fission rejects sterile neutrino hypothesis

H. Almazán, L. Bernard, A. Blanchet +21

Anomalies in past neutrino measurements have led to the discovery that these particles have non-zero mass and oscillate between their three flavors when they propagate. In the 2010…

hep-ex2022★ 5 cited

Improved FIFRELIN de-excitation model for neutrino applications

H. Almazan, L. Bernard, A. Blanchet +26

The precise modeling of the de-excitation of Gd isotopes is of great interest for experimental studies of neutrinos using Gd-loaded organic liquid scintillators. The FIFRELIN code…

physics.ins-det2022★ 9 cited

Safe liquid scintillators for large scale detectors

A. Bonhomme, C. Buck, B. Gramlich +1

Many experiments in particle physics, in particular in the field of neutrino searches, rely on organic liquid scintillators as target and detection material. The size of these dete…

hep-ph2022★ 8 cited

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering: Terrestrial and astrophysical applications

M. Abdullah, H. Abele, D. Akimov +272

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENS) is a process in which neutrinos scatter on a nucleus which acts as a single particle. Though the total cross section is large…

physics.ins-det2022★ 57 cited

Direct measurement of the ionization quenching factor of nuclear recoils in germanium in the keV energy range

A. Bonhomme, H. Bonet, C. Buck +9

This article reports the measurement of the ionization quenching factor in germanium for nuclear recoil energies between 0.4 and 6.3 keV. Precise knowledge of this factor in…

hep-ex2022★ 45 cited

First upper limits on neutrino electromagnetic properties from the CONUS experiment

H. Bonet, A. Bonhomme, C. Buck +10

We report first constraints on neutrino electromagnetic properties from neutrino-electron scattering using data obtained from the CONUS germanium detectors, i.e. an upper limit on…

physics.ins-det2021★ 17 cited

Full background decomposition of the CONUS experiment

H. Bonet, A. Bonhomme, C. Buck +10

The CONUS experiment is searching for coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering of reactor anti-neutrinos with four low energy threshold point-contact high-purity germanium spec…

hep-ex2021★ 18 cited

Searching for Hidden Neutrons with a Reactor Neutrino Experiment: Constraints from the STEREO Experiment

H. Almazán, L. Bernard, A. Blanchet +25

Different extensions of the standard model of particle physics, such as braneworld or mirror matter models, predict the existence of a neutron sterile state, possibly as a dark mat…

hep-ph2021★ 63 cited

Novel constraints on neutrino physics beyond the standard model from the CONUS experiment

CONUS Collaboration, H. Bonet, A. Bonhomme +10

The measurements of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENS) experiments have opened up the possibility to constrain neutrino physics beyond the standard model of ele…

nucl-ex2021★ 21 cited

Joint Measurement of the U Antineutrino Spectrum by Prospect and Stereo

H. Almazán, M. Andriamirado, A. B. Balantekin +82

The PROSPECT and STEREO collaborations present a combined measurement of the pure U antineutrino spectrum, without site specific corrections or detector-dependent effects.…

physics.ins-det2020★ 24 cited

Large-size sub-keV sensitive germanium detectors for the CONUS experiment

H. Bonet, A. Bonhomme, C. Buck +12

Intense fluxes of reactor antineutrinos offer a unique possibility to probe the fully coherent character of elastic neutrino scattering off atomic nuclei. In this regard, detectors…

hep-ex2020★ 32 cited

First antineutrino energy spectrum from U fissions with the STEREO detector at ILL

STEREO collaboration, H. Almazán, L. Bernard +24

This article reports the measurement of the U-induced antineutrino spectrum shape by the STEREO experiment. 43'000 antineutrinos have been detected at about 10 m from the h…

hep-ex2020★ 3 cited

Note on arXiv:2005.05301, 'Preparation of the Neutrino-4 experiment on search for sterile neutrino and the obtained results of measurements'

H. Almazán, M. Andriamirado, A. B. Balantekin +79

We comment on the claimed observation [arXiv:arXiv:2005.05301] of sterile neutrino oscillations by the Neutrino-4 collaboration. Such a claim, which requires the existence of a new…

hep-ex2020★ 26 cited

Accurate Measurement of the Electron Antineutrino Yield of U-235 Fissions from the STEREO Experiment with 119 Days of Reactor-On Data

STEREO Collaboration, H. Almazán, L. Bernard +26

We report a measurement of the antineutrino rate from the fission of U-235 with the STEREO detector using 119 days of reactor turned on. In our analysis, we perform several detaile…

hep-ex2019★ 113 cited

Improved Sterile Neutrino Constraints from the STEREO Experiment with 179 Days of Reactor-On Data

STEREO Collaboration, H. Almazán, L. Bernard +27

The STEREO experiment is a very short baseline reactor antineutrino experiment. It is designed to test the hypothesis of light sterile neutrinos being the cause of a deficit of the…

physics.ins-det2019★ 22 cited

Improved STEREO simulation with a new gamma ray spectrum of excited gadolinium isotopes using FIFRELIN

H. Almazán, L. Bernard, A. Blanchet +27

The STEREO experiment measures the electron antineutrino spectrum emitted in a research reactor using the inverse beta decay reaction on H nuclei in a gadolinium loaded liquid scin…

hep-ex2018★ 105 cited

Sterile Neutrino Constraints from the STEREO Experiment with 66 days of Reactor-on Data

H. Almazán, P. del Amo Sanchez, L. Bernard +25

The reactor antineutrino anomaly might be explained by the oscillation of reactor antineutrinos toward a sterile neutrino of eV mass. In order to explore this hypothesis, the STERE…

physics.ins-det2018★ 45 cited

The STEREO Experiment

N. Allemandou, H. Almazán, P. del Amo Sanchez +62

The STEREO experiment is a very short baseline reactor antineutrino experiment aiming at testing the hypothesis of light sterile neutrinos as an explanation of the deficit of the o…