PROSPECT, the Precision Reactor Oscillation and SPECTrum experiment
ORAL
Abstract
PROSPECT is a high-precision reactor-based short-baseline anti-neutrino experiment. Deployed at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the detector has been fully assembled and has been taking data since March 2018.The anti-neutrino detector consists of 4-ton $^{6}$Li-loaded liquid scintillator optically separated into 14 by 11 segments enabling model-independent search for eV$^2$-scale sterile neutrino oscillations. Extensive calibration campaigns have been performed to characterize both the whole detector and single segment response.
The talk will discuss detector element design, performance and present related calibration results.
*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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Xiaobin Lu
- The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory