Search for Short Baseline Sterile Neutrino Oscillation with PROSPECT

ORAL

Abstract

The PROSPECT short-baseline reactor experiment is designed to perform a precision measurement of the antineutrino spectrum associated with 235-U and probe, to high-significance, sterile neutrino oscillation with mass states in the eV region. PROSPECT operates at a distance of 7m from the compact high-flux isotope reactor (HFIR) at ORNL and consists of a single volume of 6Li-loaded liquid scintillator separated into 154 optically isolated segments. Segmentation provides simple event localization over a range of baselines within the detector and thus supports a reactor-model independent oscillation search through a relative measurement of energy spectra between segments. This talk will discuss the PROSPECT oscillation analysis and present recent results.

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Presenters

  • Hans P Mumm

    National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD 20899

Authors

  • Hans P Mumm

    National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD 20899

  • Jeremy Gaison

    Yale Univ