The Radioactive Source Calibration System of the PROSPECT Reactor Antineutrino Detector
Abstract
The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum (PROSPECT) Experiment is a reactor neutrino experiment designed to search for sterile neutrinos with a mass on the order of 1 eV/c and to measure the spectrum of electron antineutrinos from a highly-enriched U nuclear reactor. The PROSPECT detector consists of an 11 by 14 array of optical segments in Li-loaded liquid scintillator at the High Flux Isotope Reactor in Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Antineutrino events are identified via inverse beta decay and read out by photomultiplier tubes located at the ends of each segment. The detector response is characterized using a radioactive source calibration system. This paper describes the design, operation, and performance of the PROSPECT source calibration system.
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@article{arxiv.1906.07244,
title = {The Radioactive Source Calibration System of the PROSPECT Reactor Antineutrino Detector},
author = {PROSPECT Collaboration and J. Ashenfelter and A. B. Balantekin and H. R. Band and C. D. Bass and D. E. Bergeron and D. Berish and N. S. Bowden and J. P. Brodsky and C. D. Bryan and J. J. Cherwinka and T. Classen and A. J. Conant and D. Dean and G. Deichert and M. V. Diwan and M. J. Dolinski and A. Erickson and B. T. Foust and M. Febbraro and J. K. Gaison and A. Galindo-Uribarri and C. E. Gilbert and B. T. Hackett and S. Hans and A. B. Hansell and K. M. Heeger and J. Insler and D. E. Jaffe and D. C. Jones and O. Kyzylova and C. E. Lane and T. J. Langford and J. LaRosa and B. R. Littlejohn and X. Lu and D. A. Martinez Caicedo and J. T. Matta and R. D. McKeown and M. P. Mendenhall and P. E. Mueller and H. P. Mumm and J. Napolitano and R. Neilson and J. A. Nikkel and D. Norcini and S. Nour and D. A. Pushin and X. Qian and E. Romero-Romero and R. Rosero and D. Sarenac and P. T. Surukuchi and A. B. Telles and M. A. Tyra and R. L. Varner and B. Viren and C. White and J. Wilhelmi and T. Wise and M. Yeh and Y. -R. Yen and A. Zhang and C. Zhang and X. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.07244},
year = {2019}
}