Sensitivity of the DANSS detector to short range neutrino oscillations

Understand

DANSS is a highly segmented 1m^3 plastic scintillator detector.

• It's 2500 scintillator strips have a Gd loaded reflective cover.
• Light is collected with 3 wave length shifting fibers per strip and read out with 50 PMTs and 2500 SiPMs.
• The DANSS will be installed under the industrial 3 GW reactor of the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant at distances varying from 9.7m to 12.2m from the reactor core.