Colloquium: Neutrino detectors as tools for nuclear security

A Bernstein, N Bowden, BL Goldblum, P Huber… - Reviews of Modern …, 2020 - APS
For over 40 years, physicists have considered possible uses for neutrino detectors in
nuclear nonproliferation, arms control, and fissile materials security. Neutrinos are an …

Improved predictions of reactor antineutrino spectra

TA Mueller, D Lhuillier, M Fallot, A Letourneau… - Physical Review C …, 2011 - APS
Precise predictions of the antineutrino spectra emitted by nuclear reactors is a key ingredient
in measurements of reactor neutrino oscillations as well as in recent applications to the …

Light sterile neutrinos: a white paper

KN Abazajian, MA Acero, SK Agarwalla… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2012 - arxiv.org
arxiv:1204.5379v1 [hep-ph] 18 Apr 2012 Page 1 Light Sterile Neutrinos: A White Paper KN
Abazajiana,1 MA Acero,2 SK Agarwalla,3 AA Aguilar-Arevalo,2 CH Albright,4, 5 S. Antusch,6 …

Concepts for Neutrino Applications

OA Akindele, R Carr - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Will neutrinos find uses outside basic science? It may be too early to say, but neutrino
physicists have already imagined a variety of possibilities from the relatively modest to the …

DANSS: Detector of the reactor AntiNeutrino based on Solid Scintillator

I Alekseev, V Belov, V Brudanin, M Danilov… - Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The DANSS project is aimed at creating a relatively compact neutrino spectrometer which
does not contain any flammable or other dangerous liquids and may therefore be located …

Online monitoring of the Osiris reactor with the Nucifer neutrino detector

G Boireau, L Bouvet, AP Collin, G Coulloux, M Cribier… - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
Originally designed as a new nuclear reactor monitoring device, the Nucifer detector has
successfully detected its first neutrinos. We provide the second-shortest baseline …

Measuring directionality in double-beta decay and neutrino interactions with kiloton-scale scintillation detectors

C Aberle, A Elagin, HJ Frisch, M Wetstein… - Journal of …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Large liquid-scintillator-based detectors have proven to be exceptionally effective for low
energy neutrino measurements due to their good energy resolution and scalability to large …

Monitoring the thermal power of nuclear reactors with a prototype cubic meter antineutrino detector

A Bernstein, NS Bowden, A Misner… - Journal of Applied …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, we estimate how quickly and how precisely a reactor's operational status and
thermal power can be monitored over hour to month time scales, using the antineutrino rate …

Observation of the isotopic evolution of pressurized water reactor fuel using an antineutrino detector

NS Bowden, A Bernstein, S Dazeley… - Journal of Applied …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
By operating an antineutrino detector of simple design during several fuel cycles, we
observed long term changes in antineutrino flux that result from the isotopic evolution of a …

Observation of reactor antineutrinos with a rapidly deployable surface-level detector

A Haghighat, P Huber, S Li, JM Link, C Mariani… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
We deploy a small 80 kg antineutrino detector, called MiniCHANDLER, based on a solid
plastic scintillator, for nearly three months at a distance of 25 m from a 2.9 GW thermal …