Journal article
A Search for Sterile Neutrinos with PROSPECT
14 Oct 2019
Abstract
The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment (PROSPECT) performs
a precision measurement of reactor antineutrinos through inverse beta decay at
a baseline range of 7-9 m from the core of the High Flux Isotope Reactor
(HFIR). The single, movable detector has a segmented design of 154 optically
separated individual segments that serves multiple purposes. Segments, filled
with 6Li-loaded liquid scintillator, cover a range of baselines from the
reactor core and allow precise event localization. A reactor-model independent
search of eV2-scale sterile neutrino oscillations is achieved by performing a
relative measurement of the antineutrino event rates and energy distributions
between segments within the detector. This talk will discuss the PROSPECT
oscillation analysis and present recent results.
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Details
- Title
- A Search for Sterile Neutrinos with PROSPECT
- Creators
- Olga Kyzylova
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Identifiers
- 991019173431004721