Review of Reactor Antineutrino Experiments

TL;DR

This paper reviews reactor antineutrino experiments aimed at measuring the neutrino mixing angle θ13, highlighting their methods, current status, and how they complement accelerator-based searches for understanding neutrino properties.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of current reactor antineutrino experiments and their role in exploring neutrino oscillations and CP-violation.

Findings

Reactor experiments have high sensitivity to θ13.

Synergy exists between reactor and accelerator neutrino experiments.

Current experiments are advancing the understanding of neutrino mixing.

Abstract

As discussed elsewhere, the measurement of a non-zero value for $\theta_{13}$ would open up a wide range of possibilities to explore CP-violation and the mass hierarchy. Experimental methods to measure currently the unknown mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ include accelerator searches for the $\nu_{e}$ appearance and precise measurements of reactor antineutrino disappearance. The reactor antineutrino experiments are designed to search for a non-vanishing mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ with unprecedented sensitivity. This document describes current reactor antineutrino experiments and synergy between accelerator searches for the $\nu_{e}$ appearance and precise measurements of reactor antineutrino disappearance.