A Search for Sterile Neutrino Oscillations with PROSPECT
ORAL
Abstract
O. Kyzylova, Drexel University, for the PROSPECT Collaboration
The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment (PROSPECT) makes a precision measurement of antineutrinos from the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) through inverse beta decay at a baseline range of 7-9 m from the reactor core. The single, movable detector consists of 154 optically separated individual segments filled with 6Li-loaded liquid scintillator. The detector segments aid with the event localization and cover a range of baselines from the reactor core. The segmented detector design allows a reactor-model independent search for eV2-scale sterile neutrino oscillations 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.
*This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science and the Heising-Simons Foundation. Additional 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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Olga Kyzylova
- Drexel University