Prospects For Precision Measurements with Reactor Antineutrinos at Daya Bay

TL;DR

This paper discusses future prospects for high-precision measurements of reactor antineutrinos at Daya Bay, including improved parameter determinations, flux and spectrum analysis, and searches for new physics.

Contribution

It outlines planned advancements in measurement precision and scope at Daya Bay, enhancing understanding of neutrino oscillations and potential new physics.

Findings

Projected measurement precision for sin^2 2θ13 and Δm^2_ee below 3%

Potential for high-statistics reactor flux and spectrum measurements

Opportunities for non-standard physics searches

Abstract

In 2012 the Daya Bay experiment made an unambiguous observation of reactor antineutrino disappearance over kilometer-long baselines and determined that the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ is non-zero. The measurements of Daya Bay have provided the most precise determination of $\theta_{13}$ to date. This whitepaper outlines the prospects for precision studies of reactor antineutrinos at Daya Bay in the coming years. This includes precision measurements of sin$^2 2\theta_{13}$ and $\Delta m^2_{ee}$ to $<$3%, high-statistics measurement of reactor flux and spectrum, and non-standard physics searches.