HEP Seminar: Manoa Andriamirado (Illinois Institute of Technology)

January 25, 2024 - 4:00pm

 Probing New Physics with the PROSPECT Reactor Antineutrino Experiment

The Precision Reactor Oscillation and SPECTrum experiment, PROSPECT, is a reactor antineutrino experiment located at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR). PROSPECT's segmented detector is positioned approximately 7 meters from the compact research reactor core, and operates overground with minimal overburden. This configuration enables the PROSPECT detector to explore different a 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 dedicated search for boosted sub-GeV dark matter, future plans to perform a sterile neutrino search with a second-generation detector, PROSPECT-II, and a final search for short-baseline neutrino oscillations using data from the current PROSPECT-I detector.

Location and Address

321 Allen Hall & Zoom ID: 971 1312 6809

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