Speaker
Karin Gilje
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
Description
PROSPECT, the Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment, is a phased experiment at the High Flux Isotope Reactor in Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Phase I will consist of a movable 3-ton Li-6 loaded liquid scintillator detector with a baseline coverage from 7 to 12 meters from the reactor core. A larger, second detector during Phase II extends the baseline range to 19 meters. One of the main physics goals of the experiment is to measure electron anti-neutrino disappearance from the highly enriched uranium core in order to search for sterile neutrinos. This poster describes the predicted sensitivity and discovery potential of the experiment to eV-scale sterile neutrinos using a spectrum-based oscillation analysis.
Author
Karin Gilje
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
