Status of light sterile neutrino searches

S Böser, C Buck, C Giunti, J Lesgourgues… - Progress in particle and …, 2020 - Elsevier
A number of anomalous results in short-baseline oscillation may hint at the existence of one
or more light sterile neutrino states in the eV mass range and have triggered a wave of new …

Improved short-baseline neutrino oscillation search and energy spectrum measurement with the PROSPECT experiment at HFIR

M Andriamirado, AB Balantekin, HR Band, CD Bass… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We present a detailed report on sterile neutrino oscillation and U 235 ν¯ e energy spectrum
measurement results from the PROSPECT experiment at the highly enriched High Flux …

MicroBooNE and the Interpretation of the MiniBooNE Low-Energy Excess

CA Argüelles, I Esteban, M Hostert, KJ Kelly, J Kopp… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
A new generation of neutrino experiments is testing the 4.7 σ anomalous excess of
electronlike events observed in MiniBooNE. This is of huge importance for particle physics …

Strong new limits on light dark matter from neutrino experiments

CV Cappiello, JF Beacom - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
The nondetection of GeV-scale weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) has led to
increased interest in more general candidates, including sub-GeV dark matter. Direct …

White paper on light sterile neutrino searches and related phenomenology

MA Acero, CA Argüelles, M Hostert… - Journal of Physics G …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Executive summary Several decades of a rich and diverse program of experimental neutrino
measurements have provided an increasingly clearer picture of the elusive neutrino sector …

Physics with reactor neutrinos

X Qian, JC Peng - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Neutrinos produced by nuclear reactors have played a major role in advancing our
knowledge of the properties of neutrinos. The first direct detection of the neutrino, confirming …

Limits on sub-GeV dark matter from the PROSPECT reactor antineutrino experiment

M Andriamirado, AB Balantekin, HR Band, CD Bass… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
If dark matter has mass lower than around 1 GeV, it will not impart enough energy to cause
detectable nuclear recoils in many direct-detection experiments. However, if dark matter is …

Modeling and simulation of a High Flux Isotope Reactor representative core model for updated performance and safety basis assessments

D Chandler, BR Betzler, EE Davidson, G Ilas - Nuclear Engineering and …, 2020 - Elsevier
A high-fidelity neutronics model of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory High Flux Isotope
Reactor (HFIR) with a representative core and experiment loading was developed to serve …

Combined Neyman–Pearson chi-square: An improved approximation to the Poisson-likelihood chi-square

X Ji, W Gu, X Qian, H Wei, C Zhang - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in …, 2020 - Elsevier
We describe an approximation to the widely-used Poisson-likelihood chi-square using a
linear combination of Neyman's and Pearson's chi-squares, namely “combined Neyman …

Joint Measurement of the Antineutrino Spectrum by PROSPECT and STEREO

H Almazán, M Andriamirado, AB Balantekin, HR Band… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
The PROSPECT and STEREO collaborations present a combined measurement of the pure
U 235 antineutrino spectrum, without site specific corrections or detector-dependent effects …