Precision Measurement of Reactor Antineutrino Oscillation at Kilometer-Scale Baselines by Daya Bay
F. P. An (Sun Yat-Sen (Zhongshan) University, Guangzhou); W. D. Bai (Sun Yat-Sen (Zhongshan) University, Guangzhou); A. B. Balantekin (University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706); M. Bishai (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973); S. Blyth (Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei); et al - Show all 200 authors
We present a new determination of the smallest neutrino mixing angle and the mass-squared difference using a final sample of inverse beta-decay (IBD) candidates with the final-state neutron captured on gadolinium. This sample is selected from the complete dataset obtained by the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment in 3158 days of operation. Compared to the previous Daya Bay results, selection of IBD candidates has been optimized, energy calibration refined, and treatment of backgrounds further improved. The resulting oscillation parameters are , for the normal mass ordering or for the inverted mass ordering.