Talk Title: Probing New Physics with the PROSPECT Reactor Antineutrino Experiment
Abstract: The Precision Reactor Oscillation and SPECTrum experiment, PROSPECT, is a reactor antineutrino experiment located at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR). The PROSPECT segmented detector is filled with PSD-capable 6Li-doped liquid scintillator, positioned approximately 7 meters from an 85 MW compact research reactor core and operates overground with minimal overburden. This configuration enables the PROSPECT detector to explore different variety of physics topics, ranging from reactor physics to beyond the standard model (BSM) physics. This presentation will highlight PROSPECT’s recent physics results, including a final search for short-baseline neutrino oscillations using optimized data set from the PROSPECT-I detector, future plans to perform a sterile neutrino search with a second-generation detector, PROSPECT-II, and a dedicated search for boosted sub-GeV dark matter.
Host: Karsten Heeger