Speaker
Description
In April 2024, Oak Ridge National Laboratory hosted the Workshop on Neutrino Science and Applications at HFIR to explore opportunities provided by the unique High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) facility to host a world-leading neutrino science experimental program over the next two decades that matches the spirit and utility of its sister laboratory at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at ORNL, Neutrino Alley. HFIR recently hosted the PROSPECT experiment which, while carrying out its physics program, quantified HFIR background conditions, demonstrated technology for on-surface rare event searches, and established the ability of HFIR facilities to support fundamental neutrino science. Furthermore, many physics topics including CEvNS that are accessible at a short distance from an intense and well quantified source of MeV-scale electron antineutrinos like HFIR were described in the Snowmass 2021 report and supporting white papers. This workshop focused on identifying fundamental science topics that could be pursued at HFIR in the near-term with the current facility configuration and identifying facility upgrades, such as shielding and overburden, that could unlock additional scientific opportunities in the medium-to-long term. This poster will report on the outcomes of that workshop.
