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Institute of Modern Physics, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai.
Department of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois.
Phys Rev Lett. 2022 Feb 25;128(8):081801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.081801.
A joint determination of the reactor antineutrino spectra resulting from the fission of ^{235}U and ^{239}Pu has been carried out by the Daya Bay and PROSPECT Collaborations. This Letter reports the level of consistency of ^{235}U spectrum measurements from the two experiments and presents new results from a joint analysis of both data sets. The measurements are found to be consistent. The combined analysis reduces the degeneracy between the dominant ^{235}U and ^{239}Pu isotopes and improves the uncertainty of the ^{235}U spectral shape to about 3%. The ^{235}U and ^{239}Pu antineutrino energy spectra are unfolded from the jointly deconvolved reactor spectra using the Wiener-SVD unfolding method, providing a data-based reference for other reactor antineutrino experiments and other applications. This is the first measurement of the ^{235}U and ^{239}Pu spectra based on the combination of experiments at low- and highly enriched uranium reactors.
大亚湾合作组和PROSPECT合作组联合测定了由²³⁵U和²³⁹Pu裂变产生的反应堆反中微子能谱。本信函报告了两个实验对²³⁵U能谱测量的一致性水平,并给出了对两个数据集联合分析的新结果。测量结果是一致的。联合分析减少了主要的²³⁵U和²³⁹Pu同位素之间的简并性,并将²³⁵U能谱形状的不确定性提高到约3%。使用维纳-奇异值分解(Wiener-SVD)展开方法从联合反卷积的反应堆能谱中展开²³⁵U和²³⁹Pu反中微子能谱,为其他反应堆反中微子实验和其他应用提供了基于数据的参考。这是首次基于低浓铀反应堆和高浓铀反应堆实验相结合对²³⁵U和²³⁹Pu能谱进行的测量。