Speaker
Prof.
Gustavo Valdiviesso
(Universidade Federal de Alfenas)
Description
Reactor neutrino experiments have observed a 5% deficit of electron anti-neutrino flux, when compared to the one predicted from nuclear physics as a product of the reactor's fission chains. One aspect that might have been overlooked in the literature is the contribution from extreme non-adiabatic effects coming from "decompression" when leaving the high density nuclear fuel rods. This work explores a analytic solution for this effect and presents its contribution to the reactor neutrino deficit.
Primary author
Prof.
Gustavo Valdiviesso
(Universidade Federal de Alfenas)