Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ashenfelter, J
• Balantekin, A B
• Band, H R
• Barclay, G
• Bass, C D
• Berish, D
• Bignell, L
• Bowden, N S
• Bowes, A
• Brodsky, J P
• Bryan, C D
• Cherwinka, J J
• Chu, R
• Classen, T
• Commeford, K
• Conant, A J
• Davee, D
• Dean, D
• Deichert, G
• Diwan, M V
• Dolinski, M J
• Dolph, J
• DuVernois, M
• Erickson, A S
• Febbraro, M T
• Gaison, J K
• Galindo-Uribarri, A
• Gilje, K
• Glenn, A
• Goddard, B W
• Green, M
• Hackett, B T
• Han, K
• Hans, S
• Heeger, K M
• Heffron, B
• Insler, J
• Jaffe, D E
• Jones, D
• Langford, T J
• Littlejohn, B R
• Caicedo, D A Martinez
• Matta, J T
• McKeown, R D
• Mendenhall, M P
• Mueller, P E
• Mumm, H P
• Napolitano, J
• Neilson, R
• Nikkel, J A
• Norcini, D
• Pushin, D
• Qian, X
• Romero, E
• Rosero, R
• Seilhan, B S
• Sharma, R
• Sheets, S
• Surukuchi, P T
• Trinh, C
• Varner, R L
• Viren, B
• Wang, W
• White, B
• White, C
• Wilhelmi, J
• Williams, C
• Wise, T
• Yao, H
• Yeh, M
• Yen, Y-R
• Zangakis, G Z
• Zhang, C
• Zhang, X

Titel

The PROSPECT physics program

Ist Teil von

• Journal of physics. G, Nuclear and particle physics, 2016-10, Vol.43 (11), p.113001

Ort / Verlag

United States: IOP Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The precision reactor oscillation and spectrum experiment, PROSPECT, is designed to make a precise measurement of the antineutrino spectrum from a highly-enriched uranium reactor and probe eV-scale sterile neutrinos by searching for neutrino oscillations over a distance of several meters. PROSPECT is conceived as a 2-phase experiment utilizing segmented 6Li-doped liquid scintillator detectors for both efficient detection of reactor antineutrinos through the inverse beta decay reaction and excellent background discrimination. PROSPECT Phase I consists of a movable 3 ton antineutrino detector at distances of 7-12 m from the reactor core. It will probe the best-fit point of the e disappearance experiments at 4 in 1 year and the favored region of the sterile neutrino parameter space at > 3 in 3 years. With a second antineutrino detector at 15-19 m from the reactor, Phase II of PROSPECT can probe the entire allowed parameter space below 10 eV2 at 5 in 3 additional years. The measurement of the reactor antineutrino spectrum and the search for short-baseline oscillations with PROSPECT will test the origin of the spectral deviations observed in recent θ 13 experiments, search for sterile neutrinos, and conclusively address the hypothesis of sterile neutrinos as an explanation of the reactor anomaly.