Speaker
Prof.
Karsten Heeger
(Yale University, Wright Laboratory)
Description
PROSPECT is a short-baseline reactor antineutrino experiment designed to make a reactor model-independent search for eV-scale sterile neutrino oscillation and measure the 235U antineutrino energy spectrum from the High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. PROSPECT consists of a 4-ton, highly-segmented 6Li-loaded liquid scintillator detector operated at baselines ranging from 7-9m from the compact, highly-enriched uranium reactor core. Extensive prototyping has shown excellent light collection efficiency and background rejection capabilities. This talk will report on the status and initial performance of the experiment.
Primary author
Prof.
Karsten Heeger
(Yale University, Wright Laboratory)
