https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2016-16341-5
Letter to the Editor
Reactor antineutrinos and nuclear physics
Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, 53706, Madison, WI, USA
* e-mail: baha@physics.wisc.edu
Received:
8
September
2016
Accepted:
13
November
2016
Published online:
24
November
2016
Short-baseline reactor neutrino experiments successfully measured the neutrino parameters they set out to measure, but they also identified a shape distortion in the 5-7 MeV range as well as a reduction from the predicted value of the flux. Nuclear physics input into the calculations of reactor antineutrino spectra needs to be better refined if this anomaly is to be interpreted as due to sterile neutrino states.
© The Author(s), 2016