PROSPECTing for antineutrinos

Release date:  Friday, May 18, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time

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Assembling PROSPECT detector

Assembly of the PROSPECT neutrino detector (Credit:  PROSPECT collaboration / Mara Lavitt)

PROSPECT assembly

Assembly of the PROSPECT neutrino detector (Credit:  PROSPECT collaboration / Mara Lavitt)

PROSPECT experiment

PROSPECT detector on site at HFIR  (Credit:  PROSPECT collaboration)

PROSPECT collaboration

PROSPECT collaboration with HFIR  personnel. (Credit:  PROSPECT collaboration / Oak Ridge National Laboratory / Manuel (Dobie) Gillispie)

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Acknowledgements

This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. Additional support for this work is provided by Yale University, the Illinois Institute of Technology, Temple University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory LDRD program, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. We gratefully acknowledge the support and hospitality of the High Flux Isotope Reactor and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy.

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