A search for antineutrino disappearance with the SoLid detector
Daniel Galbinski (Post-doctorant sur le projet nEDM au LPC)
SoLid (Search for Oscillations with a Lithium-6 detector) is a very-short-baseline reactor antineutrino experiment that was operational at the BR2 research reactor in Mol, Belgium, between April 2018 and September 2022. The goal of this experiment is to probe the Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly (RAA), a deficit in the measured reactor antineutrino flux with respect to prediction, by searching for disappearance of antineutrinos to a sterile state. The detector consists of a highly segmented array of 12800 dual-scintillator cubes, combining PVT and 6LiF:ZnS(Ag), to detect antineutrinos via their inverse-beta-decay (IBD) products. The excellent spatial resolution granted by the detector granularity allows us to separate the IBD positron from the rest of the visible energy. Suppression of the high rates of background present in the above-ground environment of a nuclear reactor demands complex ML-based strategies. Presented in this talk are the tools developed to reduce the background rate such that it is possible to obtain a statistically useful antineutrino spectrum. This is followed by the results of a frequentist oscillation analysis in which a region of sterile-neutrino parameter space, including some of the RAA allowed region, is excluded
2024, 3 oct. 13h30
LPC Caen
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