Speaker
Description
The Precision Reactor Oscillation and SPECTrum (PROSPECT) experiment is a short-baseline reactor experiment with the goal of measuring the antineutrino spectrum from the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR). It searches for potential short-baseline oscillations and the existence of sterile neutrinos. PROSPECT has already set new limits on the existence of eV-scale sterile neutrinos while achieving the highest signal-to-background ratio on any surface antineutrino detector. The collaboration has developed an upgraded detector design, PROSPECT-II, to increase the detector’s statistics and physics sensitivity. In this poster, I will describe the major design features of the PROSPECT-II detector, highlighting improved design elements concerning the first-generation PROSPECT-I detector and discuss how these improvements will add to the first-generation oscillation and spectrum results.
| Poster prize | Yes |
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| Given name | Ohana |
| Surname | Benevides Rodrigues |
| First affiliation | Illinois Institute of Technology |
| Institutional email | obenevidesrodrigues@iit.edu |
| Gender | Female |
| Collaboration (if any) | PROSPECT |
