Reactor Antineutrino Oscillations at Super-Kamiokande

2020
Abstract SuperKamiokande (SK) doped with gadolinium has the capability to efficiently identify electron-antineutrinos through inverse beta-decay. Given the size of SK and the number of nuclear reactors in its vicinity, we argue that SK can observe the oscillations of reactor antineutrinos driven by the so-called solar mass-squared difference Δ m 21 2 . After only one year of data taking, we estimate that SK can measure Δ m 21 2 with enough precision to help inform the current small tension between existing results from KamLAND and solar neutrino experiments.
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