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Within the period between the years 1988 and 1990, the spectrum of positrons from the inverse-beta-decay reaction on a proton was measured at the Rovno atomic power plant in the course of experiments conducted there. The measured spectrum has the vastest statistics in relation to other neutrino experiments at nuclear reactors and the lowest threshold for positron detection. An experimental reactor-antineutrino spectrum was obtained on the basis of this positron spectrum and was recommended as a reference spectrum. The spectra of individual fissile isotopes were singled out from the measured antineutrino spectrum. These spectra can be used to analyze neutrino experiments performed at nuclear reactors for various compositions of the fuel in the reactor core.
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Original Russian Text © V.V. Sinev, 2013, published in Yadernaya Fizika, 2013, Vol. 76, No. 5, pp. 578–584.
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Sinev, V.V. Experimental spectrum of reactor antineutrinos and spectra of main fissile isotopes. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 76, 537–543 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106377881304011X
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