Impact of the Most Recent Total Absorption Gamma-ray Spectroscopy Data for Fission Fragments on Reactor Antineutrino Spectra and Comparison with the Daya Bay Results

The accurate determination of reactor antineutrino spectra is still a challenge. In 2017 the Daya Bay experiment has measured the evolution of the antineutrino flux with the fuel content of the reactor core. The observed deficit of the detected flux compared with the predictions of the conversion mo...

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Main Authors: Estienne, M., Fallot, M., Algora, A., Briz-Monago, J., Bui, V.M., Cormon, S., Gelletly, W., Giot, L., Guadilla, V., Jordan, D., Meur, L. Le, Porta, A., Rice, S., Rubio, B., Taín, J. L., Valencia, E., Zakari-Issoufou, A.-A.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Collaboration
Conversion
Energy spectra
Gamma spectroscopy
Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear fuels
Physics
Sciences of the Universe
Spectrum analysis
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Summary:The accurate determination of reactor antineutrino spectra is still a challenge. In 2017 the Daya Bay experiment has measured the evolution of the antineutrino flux with the fuel content of the reactor core. The observed deficit of the detected flux compared with the predictions of the conversion model was almost totally explained by the data arising from the fissions of 235U while the part dominated by the fission of 239Pu was in good agreement with the conversion model. The TAGS collaboration has carried out two experimental campaigns during the last decade at the JYFLTRAP of Jyväskylä (Finland) measuring a large set of data in order to improve the quality of the predictions of our summation method. These measurements allow the correction of the nuclear data for the Pandemonium effect, thus making an important contribution to calculating the antineutrino spectra. The impact of these ten years of measurement from our collaboration on the predicted antineutrino energy spectrum and flux are shown using our summation calculations. The results are compared with the Daya Bay measurements showing the best agreement in shape (in the antineutrino energy range 2 to 5 MeV) and in flux obtained so far with a model. The flux deficit observed by Daya Bay with respect to the summation method is now reduced to 1.9% leaving little room for the reactor anomaly. The shape anomaly between 5 and 7 MeV in antineutrino energy is still observed and remains unexplained.
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
1742-6596
1742-6588
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/1643/1/012022