Prospects For Precision Measurements with Reactor Antineutrinos at Daya Bay

Abstract

In 2012 the Daya Bay experiment made an unambiguous observation of reactor antineutrino disappearance over kilometer-long baselines and determined that the neutrino mixing angle ${\theta }_{13}$ is non-zero. The measurements of Daya Bay have provided the most precise determination of ${\theta }_{13}$ to date. This whitepaper outlines the prospects for precision studies of reactor antineutrinos at Daya Bay in the coming years. This includes precision measurements of sin${}^{2}2{\theta }_{13}$ and $\Delta m_{ee}^2$ to $<$3%, high-statistics measurement of reactor flux and spectrum, and non-standard physics searches.

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, whitepaper for Snowmass 2013