Search for sterile neutrinos in the neutrino-4 experiment


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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 external radiation may be positioned at a distance varying between 6 and 12 m from the center of the reactor. The antineutrino flux has for the first time been measured using a movable detector placed close to the antineutrino source. The accuracy of the measurements is largely restricted by the cosmic background. The results of the measurements performed at small and large distances are analyzed in terms of the sterile-neutrino model parameters Δm142 and sin214.

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A. Serebrov

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Autor responsável pela correspondência
Email: serebrov_ap@pnpi.nrcki.ru
Rússia, Gatchina, Leningrad region, 188300

V. Aleshin

National Research Center Kurchatov Institute

Email: serebrov_ap@pnpi.nrcki.ru
Rússia, Moscow, 123182

A. Petelin

State Scientific Center Research Institute of Atomic Reactors

Email: serebrov_ap@pnpi.nrcki.ru
Rússia, Dimitrovgrad, Ul’yanovsk region, 433510

A. Izhutov

State Scientific Center Research Institute of Atomic Reactors

Email: serebrov_ap@pnpi.nrcki.ru
Rússia, Dimitrovgrad, Ul’yanovsk region, 433510

A. Tuzov

State Scientific Center Research Institute of Atomic Reactors

Email: serebrov_ap@pnpi.nrcki.ru
Rússia, Dimitrovgrad, Ul’yanovsk region, 433510

S. Sazontov

State Scientific Center Research Institute of Atomic Reactors

Email: serebrov_ap@pnpi.nrcki.ru
Rússia, Dimitrovgrad, Ul’yanovsk region, 433510

D. Ryazanov

Dimitrovgrad Engineering and Technical Institute, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI

Email: serebrov_ap@pnpi.nrcki.ru
Rússia, Dimitrovgrad, Ul’yanovsk region, 433511

M. Gromov

State Scientific Center Research Institute of Atomic Reactors

Email: serebrov_ap@pnpi.nrcki.ru
Rússia, Dimitrovgrad, Ul’yanovsk region, 433510

V. Afanas’ev

State Scientific Center Research Institute of Atomic Reactors

Email: serebrov_ap@pnpi.nrcki.ru
Rússia, Dimitrovgrad, Ul’yanovsk region, 433510

M. Zaitsev

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute; Dimitrovgrad Engineering and Technical Institute, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI

Email: serebrov_ap@pnpi.nrcki.ru
Rússia, Gatchina, Leningrad region, 188300; Dimitrovgrad, Ul’yanovsk region, 433511

V. Tarasenkov

National Research Center Kurchatov Institute

Email: serebrov_ap@pnpi.nrcki.ru
Rússia, Moscow, 123182

V. Martem’yanov

National Research Center Kurchatov Institute

Email: serebrov_ap@pnpi.nrcki.ru
Rússia, Moscow, 123182

V. Ivochkin

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov_ap@pnpi.nrcki.ru
Rússia, Gatchina, Leningrad region, 188300

R. Samoilov

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov_ap@pnpi.nrcki.ru
Rússia, Gatchina, Leningrad region, 188300

A. Fomin

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov_ap@pnpi.nrcki.ru
Rússia, Gatchina, Leningrad region, 188300

A. Polyushkin

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov_ap@pnpi.nrcki.ru
Rússia, Gatchina, Leningrad region, 188300

V. Zinov’ev

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov_ap@pnpi.nrcki.ru
Rússia, Gatchina, Leningrad region, 188300

P. Neustroev

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov_ap@pnpi.nrcki.ru
Rússia, Gatchina, Leningrad region, 188300

V. Golovtsov

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov_ap@pnpi.nrcki.ru
Rússia, Gatchina, Leningrad region, 188300

A. Chernyi

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov_ap@pnpi.nrcki.ru
Rússia, Gatchina, Leningrad region, 188300

O. Zherebtsov

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov_ap@pnpi.nrcki.ru
Rússia, Gatchina, Leningrad region, 188300

M. Chaikovskii

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov_ap@pnpi.nrcki.ru
Rússia, Gatchina, Leningrad region, 188300

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