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Neutrino Physics at Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant: 2002-2017

Author
Alekseev I. ITEP, Moscow, Russia
Hons Zdeněk, RNDr. CSc. Nuclear Physics Institute of the ASCR
Vlášek Jakub, Ing. Institute of Exprimental and Applied Physics CTU
et al.  different institutions

Year
2017

Scientific journal
Journal of Physics Conference Series, 934, UNSP 012006

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Abstract
The results of the research in the field of neutrino physics obtained at Kalinin nuclear power plant during 15 years are presented. The investigations were performed in two directions. The first one includes GEMMA I and GEMMA II experiments for the search of the neutrino magnetic moment, where the best result in the world on the value of the upper limit of this quantity was obtained. The second direction is tied with the measurements by a solid scintillator detector DANSS designed for remote on-line diagnostics of nuclear reactor parameters and search for short range neutrino oscillations. DANSS is now installed at the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant under the 4-th unit on a movable platform. Measurements of the antineutrino flux demonstrated that the detector is capable to reflect the reactor thermal power with an accuracy of about 1.5% in one day. Investigations of the neutrino flux and their energy spectrum at different distances allowed to study a large fraction of a sterile neutrino parameter space indicated by recent experiments and perform the reanalysis of the reactor neutrino fluxes. Status of the short range oscillation experiment is presented together with some preliminary results based on about 170 days of active data taking during the first year of operation.

Cite article as:
I. Alekseev, Z. Hons, J. Vlášek, . et al., "Neutrino Physics at Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant: 2002-2017", Journal of Physics Conference Series, 934, UNSP 012006 (2017)