1205.2955 (A. P. Serebrov et al.)

NEUTRINO4 experiment: preparations for search for sterile neutrino at
100 MW reactor SM-3 at 6-12 meters    [PDF]

A. P. Serebrov, V. G. Zinoviev, A. K. Fomin, U. E. Loginov, M. S. Onegin, A. M. Gagarsky, G. A. Petrov, V. A. Solovey, A. V. Chernyi, O. M. Zherebtsov, V. P. Martemyianov, V. G. Zinoev, V. G. Tarasenkov, A. I. Alyoshin, M. N. Svyatkin, A. L. Izhuov, A. L. Petelin, S. A. Sazontov, D. K. Ryazanov, M. O. Gromov, N. S. Khramkov, V. I. Ryikalin

NEUTRINO4 experiment has been elaborated on search for transition of the reactor antineutrino into a sterile state. One has performed the Monte Carlo modeling of position-sensitive detector of antineutrino which consists of 20 operation sections covering the range of distance from the reactor core at 6-12 meters. This distance range is sensitive to delta m_14^2 within 0.1 - 2 eV2. For instance, for delta m_14^2 = 1 eV2 the experiment on determining a mixing parameter sin^2 2teta_14 can be implemented with accuracy 0.01. Preparation for this experiment is being in progress.

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