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- Nuclear reactors provide an effective and well-understood source of neutrinos, essential for studying their properties.
- Reactors have significantly contributed to key discoveries in neutrino science, including neutrino oscillations, the solar neutrino problem, and the determination of the mixing angle θ13.
- Future research using reactors aims to uncover the neutrino mass hierarchy and address the mystery of sterile neutrinos.
Article Abstract
Nuclear reactors are one of the most intense, pure, controllable, cost-effective and well-understood sources of neutrinos. Reactors have played a major role in the study of neutrino oscillations, a phenomenon that indicates that neutrinos have mass and that neutrino flavours are quantum mechanical mixtures. Over the past several decades, reactors were used in the discovery of neutrinos, were crucial in solving the solar neutrino puzzle, and allowed the determination of the smallest mixing angle θ13. In the near future, reactors will help to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy and to solve the puzzling issue of sterile neutrinos.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4423222 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7935 | DOI Listing |
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