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Observation of the electron anti-neutrino disappearance at Daya Bay

Name: Observation of the electron anti-neutrino disappearance at Daya Bay
Start: 2012-03-20T15:00:00+01:00
End: 2012-03-20T16:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

by Prof. Yifang Wang (Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Chinese Academy of Sciences,)

Tuesday 20 Mar 2012, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

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After 8 years of planning and construction, the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment started physics data taking on Dec. 24, 2011. Over 55 days of data taking, first physics results are obtained. The disappearance of electron anti-neutrinos from reactors at a baseline of 1.7 km is observed, consistent with the expectation of the neutrino oscillation. The measured oscillation amplitude is sin^2 2theta_13 = 0.092 +- 0.016(stat) +- 0.005(syst), 5.2 sigma statistically significant from zero.

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Observation of the electron anti-neutrino disappearance at Daya Bay

by Prof. Yifang Wang (Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Chinese Academy of Sciences,)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

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