The STEREO experiment has been proposed to give an unambiguous response to the hypothesis of a light sterile neutrino state (∆m² ∼ 1eV²) as the origin of the reactor antineutrino anomaly. Its goal is to confirm or reject this hypothesis by searching at short distance (9-11 m) for a neutrino oscillation pattern in the energy spectrum of the ν¯e’s emitted by the research nuclear reactor of the Laue-Langevin Institute in Grenoble (France). To this end, the detector is composed of 2 tons of Gd-loaded liquid scintillator read out by an array of PMTs, and is segmented in 6 cells in the direction of the ν¯e’s propagation. Antineutrinosare detected via the IBD process by observing a time correlated signal composed of a prompt energy deposit from a...