Speaker
Description
The Precision Reactor Oscillation and SPECTrum (PROSPECT) experiment is a short baseline reactor neutrino experiment that produced one of the world-leading limits on eV-scale sterile neutrinos and performed a precision measurement of the reactor antineutrino spectrum from the High Flux Isotope Reactor--a highly enriched uranium reactor--located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. PROSPECT also demonstrated the capability to perform an on-surface reactor neutrino measurement with a signal-to-background ratio better than 1 for the first time. PROSPECT collaboration is now preparing an upgraded detector for the second phase of the experiment. With evolutionary changes to the PROSPECT detector, PROSPECT-II aims to perform a high precision reactor neutrino spectrum measurement and probe the unexplored parameter space for sterile neutrinos. This talk will describe the unique beyond the standard model physics potential of the PROSPECT-II experiment in addressing the short baseline anomalous results.
