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View article: Full Data Release of the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment
Full Data Release of the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment Open
Full Data Release of the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment Summary The repository contains the full Daya Bay data set of inverse-beta-decay (IBD) candidates (reactor electron antineutrino interactions) with the final-state neutron captu…
View article: Machine learning for single-ended event reconstruction in PROSPECT experiment
Machine learning for single-ended event reconstruction in PROSPECT experiment Open
The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment, PROSPECT, was a segmented antineutrino detector that successfully operated at the High Flux Isotope Reactor in Oak Ridge, TN, during its 2018 run. Despite challenges with photomult…
View article: Comprehensive Measurement of the Reactor Antineutrino Spectrum and Flux at Daya Bay
Comprehensive Measurement of the Reactor Antineutrino Spectrum and Flux at Daya Bay Open
This Letter reports the precise measurement of the reactor antineutrino spectrum and flux based on the full dataset of 4.7×10^{6} inverse-beta-decay candidates collected at Daya Bay near detectors. Expressed in terms of the inverse-beta-de…
View article: Final Search for Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillations with the PROSPECT-I Detector at HFIR
Final Search for Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillations with the PROSPECT-I Detector at HFIR Open
The PROSPECT experiment is designed to perform precise searches for antineutrino disappearance at short distances (7–9 m) from compact nuclear reactor cores. This Letter reports results from a new neutrino oscillation analysis performed us…
View article: Reactor antineutrino directionality measurement with the PROSPECT-I detector
Reactor antineutrino directionality measurement with the PROSPECT-I detector Open
The PROSPECT-I detector has several features that enable measurement of the direction of a compact neutrino source. Here, in this paper, a detailed report on the directional measurements made on electron antineutrinos emitted from the High…
View article: Comprehensive Measurement of the Reactor Antineutrino Spectrum and Flux at Daya Bay
Comprehensive Measurement of the Reactor Antineutrino Spectrum and Flux at Daya Bay Open
This Letter reports the precise measurement of reactor antineutrino spectrum and flux based on the full data set of 4.7 million inverse-beta-decay (IBD) candidates collected at Daya Bay near detectors. Expressed in terms of the IBD yield p…
View article: Comparing Patient Communication Event Demand for External Ring Fixators to Other Common Foot and Ankle Orthopaedic Procedures: A Retrospective Study
Comparing Patient Communication Event Demand for External Ring Fixators to Other Common Foot and Ankle Orthopaedic Procedures: A Retrospective Study Open
Background: Surgeons may hesitate to apply external ring fixators (ERFs) due to perceived high clinical burden. This study aims to quantify the relative demand of ERFs compared with other common foot and ankle procedures. Understanding the…
View article: Measurement of Electron Antineutrino Oscillation Amplitude and Frequency via Neutron Capture on Hydrogen at Daya Bay
Measurement of Electron Antineutrino Oscillation Amplitude and Frequency via Neutron Capture on Hydrogen at Daya Bay Open
This Letter reports the first measurement of the oscillation amplitude and frequency of reactor antineutrinos at Daya Bay via neutron capture on hydrogen using 1958 days of data. With over 3.6 million signal candidates, an optimized candid…
View article: Evaluating the Potential Use of Wearable Fitness Devices as a Measure of Outcomes in Orthopaedics
Evaluating the Potential Use of Wearable Fitness Devices as a Measure of Outcomes in Orthopaedics Open
Category: Sports; Other Introduction/Purpose: Orthopaedic surgeons routinely utilize Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) to evaluate surgical and nonsurgical treatment outcomes. PROMs can be cumbersome to both patients and surgeons w…
View article: Search for a Sub-eV Sterile Neutrino Using Daya Bay’s Full Dataset
Search for a Sub-eV Sterile Neutrino Using Daya Bay’s Full Dataset Open
This Letter presents results of a search for the mixing of a sub-eV sterile neutrino with three active neutrinos based on the full data sample of the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment, collected during 3158 days of detector operation, w…
View article: The Belle II Detector Upgrades Framework Conceptual Design Report
The Belle II Detector Upgrades Framework Conceptual Design Report Open
We describe the planned near-term and potential longer-term upgrades of the Belle II detector at the SuperKEKB electron-positron collider operating at the KEK laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan. These upgrades will allow increasingly sensitive s…
View article: Final Search for Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillations with the PROSPECT-I Detector at HFIR
Final Search for Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillations with the PROSPECT-I Detector at HFIR Open
The PROSPECT experiment is designed to perform precise searches for antineutrino disappearance at short distances (7 - 9~m) from compact nuclear reactor cores. This Letter reports results from a new neutrino oscillation analysis performed …
View article: Reactor Antineutrino Directionality Measurement with the PROSPECT-I Detector
Reactor Antineutrino Directionality Measurement with the PROSPECT-I Detector Open
The PROSPECT-I detector has several features that enable measurement of the direction of a compact neutrino source. In this paper, a detailed report on the directional measurements made on electron antineutrinos emitted from the High Flux …
View article: Measurement of Electron Antineutrino Oscillation Amplitude and Frequency via Neutron Capture on Hydrogen at Daya Bay
Measurement of Electron Antineutrino Oscillation Amplitude and Frequency via Neutron Capture on Hydrogen at Daya Bay Open
This Letter reports the first measurement of the oscillation amplitude and frequency of reactor antineutrinos at Daya Bay via neutron capture on hydrogen using 1958 days of data. With over 3.6 million signal candidates, an optimized candid…
View article: Charged-current non-standard neutrino interactions at Daya Bay
Charged-current non-standard neutrino interactions at Daya Bay Open
A bstract The full data set of the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment is used to probe the effect of the charged current non-standard interactions (CC-NSI) on neutrino oscillation experiments. Two different approaches are applied and con…
View article: Search for a sub-eV sterile neutrino using Daya Bay's full dataset
Search for a sub-eV sterile neutrino using Daya Bay's full dataset Open
This Letter presents results of a search for the mixing of a sub-eV sterile neutrino with three active neutrinos based on the full data sample of the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment, collected during 3158 days of detector operation, w…
View article: Design and construction of a cosmic ray detector array for undergraduate research at the City University of New York
Design and construction of a cosmic ray detector array for undergraduate research at the City University of New York Open
Cosmic ray detectors are being built by undergraduate engineering and computer science research students, high school teachers, and college faculty, for a detector array at campuses of the City University of New York. One hundred surplus p…
View article: First measurement of the yield of $^8$He isotopes produced in liquid scintillator by cosmic-ray muons at Daya Bay
First measurement of the yield of $^8$He isotopes produced in liquid scintillator by cosmic-ray muons at Daya Bay Open
Daya Bay presents the first measurement of cosmogenic $^8$He isotope production in liquid scintillator, using an innovative method for identifying cascade decays of $^8$He and its child isotope, $^8$Li. We also measure the production yield…
View article: Charged-current non-standard neutrino interactions at Daya Bay
Charged-current non-standard neutrino interactions at Daya Bay Open
The full data set of the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment is used to probe the effect of the charged current non-standard interactions (CC-NSI) on neutrino oscillation experiments. Two different approaches are applied and constraints o…
View article: Performance of a ton-scale water-based liquid scintillator detector
Performance of a ton-scale water-based liquid scintillator detector Open
This study reports the performance and light yield of 1% concentration water-based liquid scintillator (WbLS) deployed in a 1000-liter detector. A light yield of 99± 15 photons per MeV is determined by comparing data with simulation. This …
View article: Performance of a Ton-scale Water-based Liquid Scintillator Detector
Performance of a Ton-scale Water-based Liquid Scintillator Detector Open
This study reports the performance and light yield of 1% concentration water-based liquid scintillator (WbLS) deployed in a 1000-liter detector. A light yield of 99$\pm$15 photons per MeV is determined by comparing data with simulation. Th…
View article: Calibration strategy of the PROSPECT-II detector with external and intrinsic sources
Calibration strategy of the PROSPECT-II detector with external and intrinsic sources Open
This paper presents an energy calibration scheme for an upgraded reactor antineutrino detector for the Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment (PROSPECT). The PROSPECT collaboration is preparing an upgraded detector, PROSPECT…
View article: Improved Measurement of the Evolution of the Reactor Antineutrino Flux and Spectrum at Daya Bay
Improved Measurement of the Evolution of the Reactor Antineutrino Flux and Spectrum at Daya Bay Open
Reactor neutrino experiments play a crucial role in advancing our knowledge of neutrinos. In this Letter, the evolution of the flux and spectrum as a function of the reactor isotopic content is reported in terms of the inverse-beta-decay y…
View article: Precision Measurement of Reactor Antineutrino Oscillation at Kilometer-Scale Baselines by Daya Bay
Precision Measurement of Reactor Antineutrino Oscillation at Kilometer-Scale Baselines by Daya Bay Open
We present a new determination of the smallest neutrino mixing angle θ_{13} and the mass-squared difference Δm_{32}^{2} using a final sample of 5.55×10^{6} inverse beta-decay (IBD) candidates with the final-state neutron captured on gadoli…
View article: Measurement of the $K^+ \to \pi^+ \nu \bar{\nu}$ Decay at Fermilab
Measurement of the $K^+ \to \pi^+ \nu \bar{\nu}$ Decay at Fermilab Open
level. Only a precious few accessible loop-dominated quark processes can be predicted with this level of certainty. (3) The K{sup +} {yields} {pi}{sup +} {nu}{bar {nu}} branching fraction is highly suppressed in the Standard Model to the l…
View article: Final Measurement of the U235 Antineutrino Energy Spectrum with the PROSPECT-I Detector at HFIR
Final Measurement of the U235 Antineutrino Energy Spectrum with the PROSPECT-I Detector at HFIR Open
This Letter reports one of the most precise measurements to date of the antineutrino spectrum from a purely U235-fueled reactor, made with the final dataset from the PROSPECT-I detector at the High Flux Isotope Reactor. By extracting infor…
View article: Calibration strategy of the PROSPECT-II detector with external and intrinsic sources
Calibration strategy of the PROSPECT-II detector with external and intrinsic sources Open
This paper presents an energy calibration scheme for an upgraded reactor antineutrino detector for the Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment (PROSPECT). The PROSPECT collaboration is preparing an upgraded detector, PROSPECT…
View article: Sesamoidectomy for Autografting in First Metatarsophalangeal Joint Arthrodesis
Sesamoidectomy for Autografting in First Metatarsophalangeal Joint Arthrodesis Open
Category: Midfoot/Forefoot Introduction/Purpose: Arthrodesis of the first metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joint is a well established procedure with excellent outcomes for patients with forefoot disorders including hallux rigidus and hallux valg…
View article: First Measurement of High-Energy Reactor Antineutrinos at Daya Bay
First Measurement of High-Energy Reactor Antineutrinos at Daya Bay Open
This Letter reports the first measurement of high-energy reactor antineutrinos at Daya Bay, with nearly 9000 inverse beta decay candidates in the prompt energy region of 8-12 MeV observed over 1958 days of data collection. A multivariate a…
View article: PROSPECT-II physics opportunities
PROSPECT-II physics opportunities Open
The precision reactor oscillation and spectrum experiment, PROSPECT, has made world-leading measurements of reactor antineutrinos at short baselines. In its first phase, conducted at the high flux isotope reactor (HFIR) at Oak Ridge Nation…