Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: The STEREO experiment is a very short baseline reactor antineutrino experiment aiming at testing the hypothesis of light sterile neutrinos as an explanation of the deficit of the observed neutrino interaction rate with respect to the predicted rate, known as the Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly. The detector center is located 10 m away from the compact, highly 235 U enriched core of the research nuclear reactor of the Institut Laue Langevin in Grenoble, France. This paper describes the STEREO site, the detector components and associated shielding designed to suppress the external sources of background which were characterized on site. It reports the performances in terms of detector response and energy reconstruction.
Source: Journal of Instrumentation
Authors: N. Allemandou, H. Almazán, P. del Amo Sanchez, L. Bernard, C. Bernard, A. Blanchet, A. Bonhomme, G. Bosson, O. Bourrion, J. Bouvier, C. Buck, V. Caillot, M. Chala, P. Champion, P. Charon, A. Collin, P. Contrepois, G. Coulloux, B. Desbrières, G. Deleglise, W. El Kanawati, J. Favier, S. Fuard, I. Gomes Monteiro, B. Gramlich, J. Haser, V. Helaine, M. Heusch, M. Jentschel, F. Kandzia, G. Konrad, U. Köster, S. Kox, C. Lahonde-Hamdoun, J. Lamblin, A. Letourneau, D. Lhuillier, C. Li, M. Lindner, L. Manzanillas, T. Materna, O. Méplan, A. Minotti, C. Monon, F. Montanet, F. Nunio, F. Peltier, Y. Penichot, M. Pequignot, H. Pessard, Y. Piret, G. Prono, G. Quéméner, J.-S. Real, C. Roca, T. Salagnac, V. Sergeyeva, S. Schoppmann, L. Scola, J.-P. Scordilis, T. Soldner, A. Stutz, D. Tourres, C. Vescovi, S. Zsoldos
Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d’Annecy de Physique des Particules, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Institut polytechnique de Grenoble, Université Grenoble Alpes, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l'Univers, Institut Laue-Langevin, TU Wien, Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics, École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen, Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire de Caen, Université de Caen Normandie
Language: English
Topic: Neutrino Physics Research
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: Agence Nationale de la Recherche
OpenAlex ID: W2799006552