TY  - JOUR
AU  - Novella, P.
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015//
TI  - The antineutrino energy structure in reactor experiments
T2  - Adv. High. Energy Phys.
JO  - Advances in High Energy Physics
SP  - 364392 - 12pp
VL  - 2015
PB  - Hindawi Publishing Corp
AB  - The recent observation of an energy structure in the reactor antineutrino spectrum is reviewed. The reactor experiments Daya Bay, Double Chooz, and RENO have reported a consistent excess of antineutrinos deviating from the flux predictions, with a local significance of about 4 sigma between 4 and 6 MeV of the positron energy spectrum. The possible causes of the structure are analyzed in this work, along with the different experimental approaches developed to identify its origin. Considering the available data and results from the three experiments, the most likely explanation concerns the reactor flux predictions and the associated uncertainties. Therefore, the different current models are described and compared. The possible sources of incompleteness or inaccuracy of such models are discussed, as well as the experimental data required to improve their precision.
SN  - 1687-7357
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03366
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/364392
DO  - 10.1155/2015/364392
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000367926000001
ID  - Novella2015
ER  -