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PROSPECT is a short-baseline reactor antineutrino experiment designed to search for short-baseline sterile neutrino oscillations and perform a precise measurement of 235U reactor antineutrino spectrum from the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). This measurement probes our understanding of recent anomalous results observed in reactor antineutrinos. PROSPECT uses a ∼ 4-ton optically segmented, Li6-loaded liquid scintillator detector with high light yield, world-leading energy resolution, and excellent pulse shape discrimination. This talk will describe the first year of operations of PROSPECT and report the latest results on the antineutrino spectrum measurement from 235U fissions at HFIR.
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.
