STUDY OF REACTOR ANTINEUTRINO INTERACTION WITH PROTON AT BUGEY NUCLEAR-POWER-PLANT

Authors
DECLAIS Y DEKERRET H LEFIEVRE B OBOLENSKY M ETENKO A KOZLOV Y MACHULIN I MARTEMIANOV V MIKAELYAN L SKOROKHVATOV M SUKHOTIN S VYRODOV V
Citation
Y. Declais et al., STUDY OF REACTOR ANTINEUTRINO INTERACTION WITH PROTON AT BUGEY NUCLEAR-POWER-PLANT, Physics letters. Section B, 338(2-3), 1994, pp. 383-389
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physics letters. Section B → ACNP
ISSN journal
03702693
Volume
338
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
383 - 389
Database
ISI
SICI code
0370-2693(1994)338:2-3<383:SORAIW>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
We report on a high precision measurement at 15m from a 2800 MWth reac tor in which 300000 events of electron antineutrino interactions with proton have been detected using an integral method. The cross section of the neutron inverse beta-decay process has been measured with an ac curacy of 1.4%. The ratio of measured cross section to the expected on e in the standard V-A theory of weak interactions is: sigma f/<sigma(V -A) = 98.7% +/- 1.4% +/- 2.7% = 0.987 +/- 0.030.