Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation

The RENO experiment ( acronym for English Reactor Neutrino Oscillation Experiment for ) is a neutrino experiment in South Korea to measure the last unknown neutrino mixing angle θ13. The experiment is located in Yeonggwang in Jeollanam-do Province in the southwest of the Korean peninsula and is operated by a research group involving scientists from various Korean universities. The mixing angle is determined indirectly by a deficit of detected antineutrinos is measured, which are produced by the nearby nuclear power plant Yeonggwang.

On April 3, 2012 with corrections on April 8, the RENO group published a paper in which with a significance of 4.9 standard deviations was determined by a non-zero mixing angle θ13:

RENO confirmed a few weeks previously published measurement of the Daya Bay experiment, as well as previous, but statistically not significant results from T2K, MINOS and Double Chooz with this result.