Measurement of the Uranium-235 Antineutrino Spectrum by PROSPECT
| Main Author: | Benjamin Foust |
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| Format: | Proceeding poster eJournal |
| Terbitan: |
, 2020
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/4124111 |
Daftar Isi:
- The Precision Reactor Oscillation and SPECTrum experiment, or PROSPECT, detector is designed to accurately measure the $^{235}$U antineutrino energy spectrum. The detector is located at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), an 85 MW highly-enriched uranium (HEU) reactor with short reactor-on periods, such that over 99% of the antineutrino flux comes from $^{235}$U. This poster presents the latest spectral results from PROSPECT. We compare the resulting spectrum to model predictions, and test the contribution of $^{235}$U towards potential high energy excess as seen in previous spectral measurements performed at nuclear power reactors.