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24 April 2024

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The PROSPECT Physics Program
J. Ashenfelter ; B. Balantekin ; H. R. Band ; G. Barclay ; C. D. Bass ; D. Berish ; N. S. Bowden ; A. Bowes ; C. D. Bryan ; J. P. Brodsky ; J. J. Cherwinka ; R. Chu ; T. Classen ; K. Commeford ; D. Davee ; D. Dean ; G. Deichert ; M. V. Diwan ; M. J. Dolinski ; J. Dolph ; J. K. Gaison ; A. Galindo-Uribarri ; K. Gilje ; A. Glenn ; B. W. Goddard ; M. Green ; K. Han ; S. Hans ; K. M. Heeger ; B. Heffron ; D. E. Jaffe ; D. Jones ; T. J. Langford ; B. R. Littlejohn ; D. A. Martinez Caicedo ; R. D. McKeown ; M. P. Mendenhall ; P. Mueller ; H. P. Mumm ; J. Napolitano ; R. Neilson ; D. Norcini ; D. Pushin ; X. Qian ; E. Romero ; R. Rosero ; B. S. Seilhan ; R. Sharma ; S. Sheets ; P. T. Surukuchi ; R. L. Varner ; B. Viren ; W. Wang ; B. White ; C. White ; J. Wilhelmi ; C. Williams ; T. Wise ; H. Yao ; M. Yeh ; Y.-R. Yen ; G. Zangakis ; C. Zhang ; X. Zhang ;
Date:	7 Dec 2015
Abstract:	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 meter-long distances. PROSPECT is conceived as a 2-phase experiment utilizing segmented $^6$Li-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 $ u_e$ disappearance experiments at 4$sigma$ in 1 year and the favored region of the sterile neutrino parameter space at $>$3$sigma$ 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 eV$^{2}$ at 5$sigma$ 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 $ heta_{13}$ experiments, search for sterile neutrinos, and conclusively address the hypothesis of sterile neutrinos as an explanation of the reactor anomaly.
Source:	arXiv, 1512.2202
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