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Production of the 178m2Hf Isomer in a Nuclear Reactor
A study is performed of the production of the 178m2Hf isomer (T1/2 = 31 years) upon the neutron irradiation of natural hafnium in a water-moderated reactor with a neutron fluence of ~1022 cm−2. It is shown that t...
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New Results of Measurements in the Neutrino-4 Experiment Devoted to Searches for Sterile Neutrinos
New results of measurements of the dependences of the flux of reactor antineutrinos and their spectrum on the distance from the center of the core of the SM-3 reactor (Dimitrovgrad, Russia) in the range from 6...
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First Observation of the Oscillation Effect in the Neutrino-4 Experiment on the Search for the Sterile Neutrino
We report Neutrino-4 experiment results of measurements of reactor antineutrinos flux and spectrum dependence on the distance in range 6–12 m from the center of the reactor core. The fit of experimental depend...
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Sterile Neutrino Search in the Neutrino-4 Experiment at the SM-3 Reactor
First results on the energy spectrum and flux of reactor antineutrinos as a function of the distance L from the reactor core, measured in the Neutrino-4 experiment for 6 < L < 12 m, are presented. The flux L‑depe...
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Search for sterile neutrinos in the neutrino-4 experiment
An experimental search for sterile neutrinos has been carried out at a neutrino facility based on the SM-3 nuclear reactor in Dimitrovgrad, Russia. The movable detector with passive shielding against the exter...
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Experiment neutrino-4 on searching for a sterile neutrino with multisection detector model
A laboratory for searching for oscillations of reactor antineutrinos has been created based on the SM-3 reactor in order to approach the problem of the possible existence of a sterile neutrino. The multisectio...
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Experiment for search for sterile neutrino at SM-3 reactor
In connection with the question of possible existence of sterile neutrino the laboratory on the basis of SM-3 reactor was created to search for oscillations of reactor antineutrino. A prototype of a neutrino d...
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Creation of neutrino laboratory for carrying out experiment on search for a sterile neutrino at the SM-3 reactor
To check the existence of a sterile neutrino, a neutrino laboratory aimed at searching reactor antineutrino oscillations is created at the SM-3 reactor. A prototype of a neutrino detector with a scintillator v...
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Neutrino-4 experiment on the search for a sterile neutrino at the SM-3 reactor
In view of the possibility of the existence of a sterile neutrino, test measurements of the dependence of the reactor antineutrino flux on the distance from the reactor core has been performed on SM-2 reactor ...
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On the possibility of performing an experiment in the search for a sterile neutrino
At present, the possible existence of a sterile neutrino having a significantly smaller cross section of interaction with a substance than, for example, electronic antineutrinos from a reactor is being widely ...
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On the possibility of experimentally confirming the hypothesis of reactor antineutrino passage into a sterile state
The “Neutrino-4” experiment for the 100-MW SM-3 reactor has been developed with the aim of testing the reactor antineutrino anomaly at Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute. The advantages of this reactor for s...
