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PROSPECT, the Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment, is a multi-phased short baseline reactor antineutrino experiment that aims to precisely measure the \(^{235}\)U antineutrino spectrum and probe for oscillation effects involving a possible \(\varDelta \)m\(^2 \sim \mathrm {eV}^2\) scale sterile neutrino. The PROSPECT antineutrino detector, a \(14\times 11\) optically segmented Li-6 loaded liquid scintillator detector will be deployed at the baseline of 7–12 m from the High Flux Isotope Reactor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. PROSPECT will measure the spectrum of \(^{235}\)U to aid in resolving the unexplained inconsistency between predictive spectral models and recent experimental measurements from low-enrichment Uranium cores, while the oscillation measurement will probe the best fit region suggested by global fitting studies within 1-year data taking. In this paper, we will cover the design of detector, the discovery potential of the experiment and the status of realizing PROSPECT.
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This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science and the Heising-Simons Foundation. Additional support for this work is provided by Yale University, the Illinois Institute of Technology, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory LDRD program. We gratefully acknowledge the support and hospitality of the High Flux Isotope Reactor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Zhang, X., for the PROSPECT collaboration. (2018). PROSPECT - A Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment. In: Liu, ZA. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics 2017. TIPP 2017. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 213. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1316-5_35
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