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Antineutrino Calculations with CONFLUX

ORAL

Abstract


The antineutrino flux from nuclear reactors is an active area of research, being an important ingredient in various reactor neutrino applications. Over the past decade, significant discrepancies between the predicted and measured flux have motivated the need for new reactor neutrino measurements, as well as a revision of nuclear data and an updating of our predictions. CONFLUX (Calculation of Neutrino FLUX) is a flexible and modular reactor source term modeling package that aims to address some of these issues. CONFLUX has been developed to standardize a variety of reactor neutrino modeling inputs and outputs, to increase accessibility of neutrino modeling, and to set a benchmark for reactor and neutrino data. The core of CONFLUX is three prediction modes: Summation, Conversion, and Direct Neutrino measurement. The comprehensive use of updated nuclear databases, as well as state-of-the art Beta spectrum models, allows users to perform sensitivity studies, evaluate the impact of new data, assess novel reactor types, carry out uncertainty quantifications, and more. Today, we will be covering the frameworks applications to CEvNS, as well as new features that have been added since release.

Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18966v1

Presenters

  • Anosh Irani

    Illinois Institute of Technology

Authors

  • Anosh Irani

    Illinois Institute of Technology

  • Xianyi Zhang

  • Nathaniel Bowden

  • Bryce R Littlejohn

    Illinois Institute of Technology

  • Sandra Bogetic

    University of Tennessee Knoxville

  • Leendert M Hayen

    North Carolina State University