Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2011-06-03
Phys.Rev.C84:024617,2011
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
20 pages, 5 figures, 9 tables, added references, version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C. Corrected errors in tab. 1
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.84.024617
In this paper we study the effect of, well-known, higher order corrections to the allowed beta decay spectrum on the determination of anti-neutrino spectra resulting from the decays of fission fragments. In particular, we try to estimate the associated theory errors and find that induced currents like weak magnetism may ultimately limit our ability to improve the current accuracy and under certain circumstance could even largely increase the theoretical errors. We also perform a critical evaluation of the errors associated with our method to extract the anti-neutrino spectrum using synthetic beta spectra. It turns out, that a fit using only virtual beta branches with a judicious choice of the effective nuclear charge provides results with a minimal bias. We apply this method to actual data for U235, Pu239 and Pu241 and confirm, within errors, recent results, which indicate a net 3% upward shift in energy averaged anti-neutrino fluxes. However, we also find significant shape differences which can in principle be tested by high statistics anti-neutrino data samples.
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