Experiment NEUTRINO-4 Search for Sterile Neutrino

Understand

In order to carry out research in the field of possible existence of a sterile neutrino the laboratory based on SM-3 reactor (Dimitrovgrad, Russia) was created to search for oscillations of reactor antineutrino.

• A moveable detector, protected with passive shielding from outer radiation, can be set at distance range 6 to 12 meters from the reactor core.
• Measurements of antineutrino flux at such short distances from the reactor core are carried out with moveable detector for the first time.
• The main difficulties of the measurements caused by cosmic background and it heavily decreases the precision of measurements.