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. 2020 Nov 13;125(20):201801.
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.201801.

Accurate Measurement of the Electron Antineutrino Yield of ^{235}U Fissions from the STEREO Experiment with 119 Days of Reactor-On Data

H Almazán  1 , L Bernard  2 , A Blanchet  3 , A Bonhomme  1   3 , C Buck  1 , P Del Amo Sanchez  4 , I El Atmani  3 , J Haser  1 , L Labit  4 , J Lamblin  2 , A Letourneau  3 , D Lhuillier  3 , M Licciardi  2 , M Lindner  1 , T Materna  3 , A Minotti  3 , A Onillon  3 , H Pessard  4 , J-S Réal  2 , C Roca  1 , R Rogly  3 , T Salagnac  2 , V Savu  3 , S Schoppmann  1 , V Sergeyeva  4 , T Soldner  5 , A Stutz  2 , M Vialat  5 ; STEREO Collaboration
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Accurate Measurement of the Electron Antineutrino Yield of ^{235}U Fissions from the STEREO Experiment with 119 Days of Reactor-On Data

H Almazán et al. Phys Rev Lett. .
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Abstract

We report a measurement of the antineutrino rate from the fission of ^{235}U with the STEREO detector using 119 days of reactor turned on. In our analysis, we perform several detailed corrections and achieve the most precise single measurement at reactors with highly enriched ^{235}U fuel. We measure an IBD cross section per fission of σ_{f}=(6.34±0.06[stat]±0.15[sys]±0.15[model])×10^{-43} cm^{2}/fission and observe a rate deficit of (5.2±0.8[stat]±2.3[sys]±2.3[model])% compared to the model, consistent with the deficit of the world average. Testing ^{235}U as the sole source of the deficit, we find a tension between the results of lowly and highly enriched ^{235}U fuel of 2.1 standard deviations.

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