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A fission reactor supplies predominantly electron antineutrinos, with typical energies of a few MeV. Even if they oscillate to muon antineutrinos, producing a real muon through a charged current requires roughly the muon rest energy, over MeV for a free nucleon target. For example,
Thus a muon spectrometer cannot observe this appearance channel from a reactor. Measure electron antineutrino disappearance instead, most commonly through inverse beta decay, , using the prompt Positron and delayed neutron signal.

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