Neutrino Physics at Drexel
- Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA (United States); Drexel University, Dept. of Physics
- Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA (United States)
Our primary goal is to improve the understanding of the properties and interactions of neutrinos. We are pursuing this by means of the DUNE long-baseline and PROSPECT short-baseline neutrino experiments. For DUNE, a neutrino beam from Fermilab will be detected at the SURF facility in South Dakota, with the aim of determining the neutrino mass hierarchy (the mass ordering of neutrino flavors), and a measurement or limit on CP-violation via neutrinos. Our near-term experimental goal is to improve the characterization of the neutrino beam by measurements of muons produced as a byproduct of neutrino beam generation, to quantify the beam composition and flux. The short-range neutrino program has the aim of using the HFIR reactor at Oak Ridge as a neutrino source, with a detector placed nearby to find if there are short-distance oscillations to sterile neutrino flavors, and to resolve the 'reactor neutrino spectral anomaly' which has shown up as an unexplained 'bump' in the neutrino energy spectrum in recent experiments.
- Research Organization:
- Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
- Contributing Organization:
- Fermi National Laboratory; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; NIST
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0011803
- OSTI ID:
- 1369022
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-DU--0011803
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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