Measurement of reactor antineutrino oscillation amplitude and frequency using 3800 days of complete data sample of the RENO experiment

TL;DR

This paper reports a precise measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters $ heta_{13}$ and $ vert riangle m_{ee}^2 vert$ using 3800 days of data from the RENO experiment, improving the accuracy over previous results.

Contribution

It provides the most precise measurements of $ heta_{13}$ and $ vert riangle m_{ee}^2 vert$ from the RENO experiment with a complete data set, reducing uncertainties.

Findings

Measured $ heta_{13}$ with 6.4% precision.

Determined $ vert riangle m_{ee}^2 vert$ with 4.5% precision.

Improved the accuracy compared to previous RENO results.

Abstract

We report an updated neutrino mixing angle of $\theta_{13}$ obtained from a complete data sample of the RENO experiment. The experiment has measured the amplitude and frequency of reactor anti-electron-neutrinos ($\bar{\nu}_{e}$) oscillations at the Hanbit nuclear power plant, Younggwang, Korea, since August 2011. As of March 2023, the data acquisition was completed after a total of 3800 live days of detector operation. The observed candidates via inverse beta decay (IBD) are 1,211,995 (144,667) in the near (far) detector. Based on an observed energy-dependent reactor neutrino disappearance, neutrino oscillation parameters of $\theta_{13}$ and $\lvert\Delta m_{ee}^2\rvert$ are precisely determined as $\sin^{2}2\theta_{13}=0.0920_{-0.0042}^{+0.0044}(\text{stat.})_{-0.0041}^{+0.0041}(\text{syst.})$ and $\lvert\Delta m_{ee}^2\rvert=\left[2.57_{-0.11}^{+0.10}(\text{stat.})_{-0.05}^{+0.05}(\text{syst.})\right]\times10^{-3}~\text{eV}^{2}$. Compared to the previous RENO results published in Ref.~\cite{PhysRevLett.121.201801}, the precision is improved from 7.5\% to 6.4\% for $\sin^{2}2\theta_{13}$ and from 5.2\% to 4.5\% for $\lvert\Delta m_{ee}^2\rvert$. The statistical error of the measurement has reached our goal and is hardly improved with additional data-taking.