Study on the Directionality of Reactor Neutrinos
Myoung Youl Pac ∗
Department of Radiology, Dongshin University, Naju 520-714, Korea and Basic Science Research Institute, Dongshin University, Naju 520-714, Korea
June Ho Choi
Basic Science Research Institute, Dongshin University, Naju 520-714, Korea (Received 9 July 2013 : revised 24 July 2013 : accepted 11 September 2013)
We have studied the possibility of the directionality of reactor-induced anti-electron neutrinos by using neutron emission angle emitted from inverse beta decay in the liquid scintillation detector.
The asymmetry of the neutron emission angles found in Monte Carlo simulations if the RENO (reactor experiment for neutrino oscillation) experiment shows the directionality of anti-electron neutrinos. As the spatial resolution of the liquid scintillation detector was increased, the magnitude of the asymmetry decreased. Because the spatial resolution is smaller than 100 mm for the RENO experiment, at the 99.7% confidence level, the minimum number of Inverse beta decays (IBDs) such that no loss of directionality of neutrinos occurs should be larger than ∼ 10
3events.
PACS numbers: 14.60.Pq, 29.40.Mc, 29.50.+c
Keywords: Directionality of neutrinos, Reactor experiment for neutrino oscillation
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