Orateur
Dr
Anna Hayes
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Description
In this talk I will present a review of the anti-neutrino spectra emitted from reactors.
Knowledge of these and their associated uncertainties are crucial for
neutrino oscillation studies. The spectra used to-date have been determined
by either conversion of measured electron spectra to anti-neutrino
spectra or by summing over all of the thousands of transitions that
makeup the spectra using modern databases as input. The uncertainties
in the sub-dominant corrections to beta-decay plague both method.
Improving on current knowledge of the anti-neutrino spectra from reactors
will require new experiments. Such experiments would also address the so-called reactor
neutrino anomaly and the possible origin of the shoulder observed
in the anti-neutrino spectra measured in recent high-statistics reactor
neutrino experiments.
Author
Dr
Anna Hayes
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
