Status of Anomalies and Sterile Neutrino Searches at Nuclear Reactors

Neutrino Oscillation Experiments at Nuclear Reactors

In this paper I give an overview of the status of neutrino oscillation experiments performed using nuclear reactors as sources of neutrinos. I review the present generation of experiments (Chooz and Palo Verde) with baselines of about 1 km as well as the next generation that will search for oscillations with a baseline of about 100 km. While the present detectors provide essential input towards...

Sterile Neutrino Searches with Precision Measurements at Very Short Baselines

Search for neutrino oscillations at the palo verde nuclear reactors

We report on the initial results from a measurement of the antineutrino flux and spectrum at a distance of about 800 m from the three reactors of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station using a segmented gadolinium-loaded scintillation detector. We find that the antineutrino flux agrees with that predicted in the absence of oscillations excluding at 90% C.L. nu;(e)-nu;(x) oscillations with De...

Status and Perspectives of Neutrino Oscillation Searches

The existence of massive neutrinos opens up a variety of new phenomena which could be investigated by experiments. One of these is neutrino oscillations. In the simplified picture of two flavour oscillations they can be parametrized by two parameters, sin2θ and ∆m. While sin2θ describes the amplitude of the oscillation, ∆m = m22 −m 2 1 determines the oscillation length L given in practical unit...

Status of Terrestrial Neutrino Oscillation Searches

For several reasons, massive neutrinos are important in modern particle physics. The theoretical extensions in form of grand unified theories of the very successful standard model may be checked by their prediction of neutrino masses. Moreover massive neutrinos would open up a variety of new phenomena which could be investigated by experiments. Also many astrophysical and cosmological implicati...