Speaker
Xiaobin Lu
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Description
PROSPECT is a short-baseline reactor-based antineutrino experiment designed to precisely measure the $^{235}$U antineutrino spectrum and search for oscillations due to the existence of an eV$^2$-scale sterile neutrino. Deployed at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in early 2018, the optically segmented 4-ton $^{6}$Li-loaded liquid scintillator anti-neutrino detector utilizes pulse-shape discrimination and temporal and spatial topology to identify anti-neutrinos and reject most cosmogenic backgrounds. In addition, preparatory background measurment campaigns have enabled deployment of localized shielding to minimize reactor-related backgrounds to anti-neutrino measurement. This talk will serve as introduction to PROSPECT experiment and will also report on the results of these PROSPECT-external background measurements at HFIR.
Primary author
Xiaobin Lu
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)