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A search for a time-varying $bar{ u}_{e}$ signal was performed with 621 days of data acquired by the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment over 704 calendar days. The time spectrum of the measured $overline{ u}_e$ flux normalized to its prediction was analyzed with a Lomb-Scargle periodogram, which yielded no significant signal for periods ranging from 2 hours to nearly 2 years. The normalized time spectrum was also fit for a sidereal modulation under the Standard Model extension (SME) framework to search for Lorentz and CPT violation (LV-CPTV). Limits were obtained for all six flavor pairs $bar{e}bar{mu}$, $bar{e}bar{tau}$, $bar{mu}bar{tau}$, $bar{e}bar{e},bar{mu}bar{mu}$ and $bar{tau}bar{tau}$ by fitting them one at a time, constituting the first experimental constraints on the latter three. Daya Bays high statistics and unique layout of multiple directions from three pairs of reactors to three experimental halls allowed the simultaneous constraint of individual SME LV-CPTV coefficients without assuming others contribute negligibly, a first for a neutrino experiment.
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The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has measured a non-zero value for the neutrino mixing angle $theta_{13}$ with a significance of 5.2 standard deviations. Antineutrinos from six 2.9 GW$_{rm th}$ reactors were detected in six antineutrino detectors deployed in two near (flux-weighted baseline 470 m and 576 m) and one far (1648 m) underground experimental halls. With a 43,000 ton-GW_{rm th}-day livetime exposure in 55 days, 10416 (80376) electron antineutrino candidates were detected at the far hall (near halls). The ratio of the observed to expected number of antineutrinos at the far hall is $R=0.940pm 0.011({rm stat}) pm 0.004({rm syst})$. A rate-only analysis finds $sin^22theta_{13}=0.092pm 0.016({rm stat})pm0.005({rm syst})$ in a three-neutrino framework.
We report an improved measurement of the neutrino mixing angle $theta_{13}$ from the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment. We exclude a zero value for $sin^22theta_{13}$ with a significance of 7.7 standard deviations. Electron antineutrinos from six reactors of 2.9 GW$_{rm th}$ were detected in six antineutrino detectors deployed in two near (flux-weighted baselines of 470 m and 576 m) and one far (1648 m) underground experimental halls. Using 139 days of data, 28909 (205308) electron antineutrino candidates were detected at the far hall (near halls). The ratio of the observed to the expected number of antineutrinos assuming no oscillations at the far hall is $0.944pm 0.007({rm stat.}) pm 0.003({rm syst.})$. An analysis of the relative rates in six detectors finds $sin^22theta_{13}=0.089pm 0.010({rm stat.})pm0.005({rm syst.})$ in a three-neutrino framework.
The theory of neutrino oscillations explains changes in neutrino flavor, count rates, and spectra from solar, atmospheric, accelerator, and reactor neutrinos. These oscillations are characterized by three mixing angles and two mass-squared differences. The solar mixing angle, {theta}_12, and the atmospheric mixing angle, {theta}_23, have been well measured, but until recently the neutrino mixing angle {theta}_13 was not well known. The Daya Bay experiment, located northeast of Hong Kong at the Guangdong Nuclear Power Complex in China, has made a precise measurement of electron antineutrino disappearance using six functionally-identical gadolinium-doped liquid scintillator-based detectors at three sites with distances between 364 and 1900 meters from six reactor cores. This proceeding describes the Daya Bay updated result, using 127 days of good run time collected between December 24, 2011 and May 11, 2012. For the far site, the ratio of the observed number of events to the expected number of events assuming no neutrino oscillation is 0.944 +/- 0.007(stat) +/- 0.003(syst). A fit for {theta}_13 in the three-neutrino framework yields sin^2 2{theta}_13 = 0.089 +/- 0.010(stat) +/- 0.005(syst).
A measurement of the energy dependence of antineutrino disappearance at the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment is reported. Electron antineutrinos ($overline{ u}_{e}$) from six $2.9$ GW$_{rm th}$ reactors were detected with six detectors deployed in two near (effective baselines 512 m and 561 m) and one far (1579 m) underground experimental halls. Using 217 days of data, 41589 (203809 and 92912) antineutrino candidates were detected in the far hall (near halls). An improved measurement of the oscillation amplitude $sin^{2}2theta_{13} = 0.090^{+0.008}_{-0.009} $ and the first direct measurement of the $overline{ u}_{e}$ mass-squared difference $|Delta m^{2}_{ee}|= (2.59_{-0.20}^{+0.19}) times 10^{-3} {rm eV}^2 $ is obtained using the observed $overline{ u}_{e}$ rates and energy spectra in a three-neutrino framework. This value of $|Delta m^{2}_{ee}|$ is consistent with $|Delta m^{2}_{mumu}|$ measured by muon neutrino disappearance, supporting the three-flavor oscillation model.
A search for light sterile neutrino mixing was performed with the first 217 days of data from the Daya Bay Reactor Antineutrino Experiment. The experiments unique configuration of multiple baselines from six 2.9~GW$_{rm th}$ nuclear reactors to six antineutrino detectors deployed in two near (effective baselines 512~m and 561~m) and one far (1579~m) underground experimental halls makes it possible to test for oscillations to a fourth (sterile) neutrino in the $10^{rm -3}~{rm eV}^{2} < |Delta m_{41}^{2}| < 0.3~{rm eV}^{2}$ range. The relative spectral distortion due to electron antineutrino disappearance was found to be consistent with that of the three-flavor oscillation model. The derived limits on $sin^22theta_{14}$ cover the $10^{-3}~{rm eV}^{2} lesssim |Delta m^{2}_{41}| lesssim 0.1~{rm eV}^{2}$ region, which was largely unexplored.
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