Search for sterile neutrinos at the DANSS experiment

Understand

DANSS is a highly segmented 1~m${}^3$ plastic scintillator detector.

• Its 2500 one meter long scintillator strips have a Gd-loaded reflective cover.
• The DANSS detector is placed under an industrial 3.1~$\mathrm{GW_{th}}$ reactor of the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant 350~km NW from Moscow.
• The distance to the core is varied on-line from 10.7~m to 12.7~m.