Friday, November 25, 2011

1111.5211 (Carlo Giunti et al.)

First Double-Chooz Results and the Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly    [PDF]

Carlo Giunti, Marco Laveder
We investigate the possible effects of short-baseline antinu_e disappearance implied by the reactor antineutrino anomaly on the Double-Chooz determination of theta_{13} through the normalization of the initial antineutrino flux with the Bugey-4 measurement. We show that the effects are negligible and the value of theta_{13} obtained by the Double-Chooz collaboration is accurate only if Delta m^2_{41} is larger than about 3 eV^2. For smaller values of Delta m^2_{41} the short-baseline oscillations are not fully averaged at Bugey-4 and the uncertainties due to the reactor antineutrino anomaly can be of the same order of magnitude of the intrinsic Double-Chooz uncertainties.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.5211

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