Review of Reactor Antineutrino Experiments

Abstract. As discussed elsewhere, the measurement of a non-zero value for θ13 would open up a wide range of possibilities to explore CP-violation and the mass hierarchy. Experimental methods to measure currently the unknown mixing angle θ13 include accelerator searches for the νe appearance and precise measurements of reactor antineutrino disappearance. The reactor antineutrino experiments are designed to search for a non-vanishing mixing angle θ13 with unprecedented sensitivity. This document describes current reactor antineutrino experiments and synergy between accelerator searches for the νe appearance and precise measurements of reactor antineutrino disappearance. 1