PROSPECT: Detector Performance and Calibration
ORAL
Abstract
The PROSPECT short-baseline reactor antineutrino experiment has performed measurements of the 235U reactor antineutrino spectrum, and searching for eV-scale sterile neutrinos. The detector was designed specifically to manage the environmental background at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) complex without overburden while maintaining the necessary energy resolution for the physics results. Extensive calibration of the detector has been performed with a variety of sources to characterize and validate the detector performance. The detector calibration, performance, and background rejection capabilities will be discussed.
*LLNL-ABS-765381 This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science and the Heising- Simons Foundation. Addition support is provided by Illinois Institute of Technology, LLNL, NIST, ORNL, Temple University, and Yale University. We gratefully acknowledge the support and hospitality of the High Flux Isotope Reactor, managed by UT-Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Presenters
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Timothy M Classen
- Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab