Speaker
Dr
Thomas Langford
(Yale University)
Description
Segmented antineutrino detectors placed near a compact research reactor provide an excellent opportunity to probe short-baseline neutrino oscillations and precisely measure the reactor antineutrino spectrum.
Close proximity to a reactor combined with minimal overburden yield a high background environment that must be managed through shielding and detector technology.
This poster will focus on the development of novel loaded scintillator for PROSPECT capable of neutron/gamma pulse shape discrimination and neutron capture tagging.
These enhancements improve the ability to identify neutrino inverse-beta decays and reject background events in analysis.
Results from these efforts will be covered along with their implications for an oscillation search and a precision spectrum measurement.
Primary author
Dr
Thomas Langford
(Yale University)