Search for neutrino oscillations at the Palo Verde nuclear reactors.

by Lester MILLER (Stanford University)

Monday 20 Mar 2000, 16:30 → 16:45 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

We report on the initial results from a measurement of the anti-neutrino flux and spectrum at a distance of about 800 m from the three reactors of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station using a segmented gadolinium-loaded scintillation detector. We find that the anti-neutrino flux agrees with that predicted in the absence of oscillations excluding at 90% CL anti-n_e - anti-n_x oscillations with Dm² > 1.12 x 10^-3 eV² for maximal mixing and sin² 2q > 0.23 for large Dm² .

Organiser(s): Fabiola Gianotti / EP Division

Note: Tea & coffee will be served at 16.00 hrs.