Title: Improved Search for a Light Sterile Neutrino with the Full Configuration of the Daya Bay Experiment
Authors: An, F. P.
Balantekin, A. B.
Band, H. R.
Bishai, M.
Blyth, S.
Cao, D.
Cao, G. F.
Cao, J.
Cen, W. R.
Chan, Y. L.
Chang, J. F.
Chang, L. C.
Chang, Y.
Chen, H. S.
Chen, Q. Y.
Chen, S. M.
Chen, Y. X.
Chen, Y.
Cheng, J. -H.
Cheng, J.
Cheng, Y. P.
Cheng, Z. K.
Cherwinka, J. J.
Chu, M. C.
Chukanov, A.
Cummings, J. P.
de Arcos, J.
Deng, Z. Y.
Ding, X. F.
Ding, Y. Y.
Diwan, M. V.
Dolgareva, M.
Dove, J.
Dwyer, D. A.
Edwards, W. R.
Gill, R.
Gonchar, M.
Gong, G. H.
Gong, H.
Grassi, M.
Gu, W. Q.
Guan, M. Y.
Guo, L.
Guo, R. P.
Guo, X. H.
Guo, Z.
Hackenburg, R. W.
Han, R.
Hans, S.
He, M.
Heeger, K. M.
Heng, Y. K.
Higuera, A.
Hor, Y. K.
Hsiung, Y. B.
Hu, B. Z.
Hu, T.
Hu, W.
Huang, E. C.
Huang, H. X.
Huang, X. T.
Huber, P.
Huo, W.
Hussain, G.
Jaffe, D. E.
Jaffke, P.
Jen, K. L.
Jetter, S.
Ji, X. P.
Ji, X. L.
Jiao, J. B.
Johnson, R. A.
Joshi, J.
Kang, L.
Kettell, S. H.
Kohn, S.
Kramer, M.
Kwan, K. K.
Kwok, M. W.
Kwok, T.
Langford, T. J.
Lau, K.
Lebanowski, L.
Lee, J.
Lee, J. H. C.
Lei, R. T.
Leitner, R.
Leung, J. K. C.
Li, C.
Li, D. J.
Li, F.
Li, G. S.
Li, Q. J.
Li, S.
Li, S. C.
Li, W. D.
Li, X. N.
Li, Y. F.
Li, Z. B.
Liang, H.
Lin, C. J.
Lin, G. L.
Lin, S.
Lin, S. K.
Lin, Y. -C.
Ling, J. J.
Link, J. M.
Littenberg, L.
Littlejohn, B. R.
Liu, D. W.
Liu, J. L.
Liu, J. C.
Loh, C. W.
Lu, C.
Lu, H. Q.
Lu, J. S.
Luk, K. B.
Lv, Z.
Ma, Q. M.
Ma, X. Y.
Ma, X. B.
Ma, Y. Q.
Malyshkin, Y.
Caicedo, D. A. Martinez
McDonald, K. T.
McKeown, R. D.
Mitchell, I.
Mooney, M.
Nakajima, Y.
Napolitano, J.
Naumov, D.
Naumova, E.
Ngai, H. Y.
Ning, Z.
Ochoa-Ricoux, J. P.
Olshevskiy, A.
Pan, H. -R.
Park, J.
Patton, S.
Pec, V.
Peng, J. C.
Pinsky, L.
Pun, C. S. J.
Qi, F. Z.
Qi, M.
Qian, X.
Raper, N.
Ren, J.
Rosero, R.
Roskovec, B.
Ruan, X. C.
Steiner, H.
Sun, G. X.
Sun, J. L.
Tang, W.
Taychenachev, D.
Treskov, K.
Tsang, K. V.
Tull, C. E.
Viaux, N.
Viren, B.
Vorobel, V.
Wang, C. H.
Wang, M.
Wang, N. Y.
Wang, R. G.
Wang, W.
Wang, X.
Wang, Y. F.
Wang, Z.
Wang, Z.
Wang, Z. M.
Wei, H. Y.
Wen, L. J.
Whisnant, K.
White, C. G.
Whitehead, L.
Wise, T.
Wong, H. L. H.
Wong, S. C. F.
Worcester, E.
Wu, C. -H.
Wu, Q.
Wu, W. J.
Xia, D. M.
Xia, J. K.
Xing, Z. Z.
Xu, J. Y.
Xu, J. L.
Xu, Y.
Xue, T.
Yang, C. G.
Yang, H.
Yang, L.
Yang, M. S.
Yang, M. T.
Ye, M.
Ye, Z.
Yeh, M.
Young, B. L.
Yu, Z. Y.
Zeng, S.
Zhan, L.
Zhang, C.
Zhang, H. H.
Zhang, J. W.
Zhang, Q. M.
Zhang, X. T.
Zhang, Y. M.
Zhang, Y. X.
Zhang, Y. M.
Zhang, Z. J.
Zhang, Z. Y.
Zhang, Z. P.
Zhao, J.
Zhao, Q. W.
Zhao, Y. B.
Zhong, W. L.
Zhou, L.
Zhou, N.
Zhuang, H. L.
Zou, J. H.
物理研究所
Institute of Physics
Issue Date: 7-Oct-2016
Abstract: This Letter reports an improved search for light sterile neutrino mixing in the electron antineutrino disappearance channel with the full configuration of the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment. With an additional 404 days of data collected in eight antineutrino detectors, this search benefits from 3.6 times the statistics available to the previous publication, as well as from improvements in energy calibration and background reduction. A relative comparison of the rate and energy spectrum of reactor antineutrinos in the three experimental halls yields no evidence of sterile neutrino mixing in the 2 x 10(-4) less than or similar to vertical bar Delta m(41)(2)vertical bar less than or similar to 0.3 eV(2) mass range. The resulting limits on sin(2) 2 theta(14) are improved by approx imately a factor of 2 over previous results and constitute the most stringent constraints to date in the vertical bar Delta m(41)(2)vertical bar less than or similar to 0.2 eV(2) region.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.151802
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/132640
ISSN: 0031-9007
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.151802
Journal: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume: 117
Issue: 15
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