Speaker
Xianyi Zhang
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
Description
PROSPECT, the Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment, is a multiphase
short baseline reactor antineutrino experiment that aims to probe eV-scale sterile neutrinos
and precisely measure the antineutrino spectrum generated from a Highly Enriched
U-235 (HEU) reactor. In Phase-I, a 3-ton movable optically segmented Li-6 loaded liquid
scintillator detector will be deployed at the High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory at baselines ranging from 7-12m. With an energy resolution of < 4.5%
at 1 MeV and a daily interaction rate of about 700 antineutrinos/day PROSPECT will
make the highest precision measurement of an HEU reactor spectrum. In this poster, we
describe PROSPECT's spectral measurement and its ability to shed light on the recently
observed spectral discrepancies observed in the θ13 experiments.
Primary author
Xianyi Zhang
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
