Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, April 13–16, 2019; Denver, Colorado
Session H12: Reactor Based Sterile Neutrino Searches
10:45 AM–12:21 PM,
Sunday, April 14, 2019
Sheraton
Room: Plaza Court 1
Sponsoring
Units:
DNP DPF
Chair: Pieter Mumm, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Abstract: H12.00001 : PROSPECT: Detector Performance and Calibration*
10:45 AM–10:57 AM
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Abstract
Presenter:
Timothy M Classen
(Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab)
Author:
Timothy M Classen
(Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab)
Collaboration:
on behalf of the PROSPECT Collaboration
The PROSPECT short-baseline reactor antineutrino experiment has performed measurements of the 235U reactor antineutrino spectrum, and searching for eV-scale sterile neutrinos. The detector was designed specifically to manage the environmental background at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) complex without overburden while maintaining the necessary energy resolution for the physics results. Extensive calibration of the detector has been performed with a variety of sources to characterize and validate the detector performance. The detector calibration, performance, and background rejection capabilities will be discussed.
*LLNL-ABS-765381 This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science and the Heising- Simons Foundation. Addition 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.
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