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Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in the SNO+ Experiment

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2019-04-03 v1

Abstract

SNO+ is a large multipurpose neutrino detector situated 2km underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. It reuses the structure of the SNO experiment with numerous infrastructure upgrades and with heavy water replaced by ultra-pure liquid scintillator. The detector will be loaded with 0.5% natural tellurium in order to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ0\nu\beta\beta). The expected sensitivity after 5 years of data taking is T1/20ν>1.9×1026^{0\nu} _{1/2} > 1.9 \times 10^{26} years (90% CL). A future increase in loading could achieve a sensitivity of 1027{\sim}10^{27} years.

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@article{arxiv.1904.01418,
  title  = {Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in the SNO+ Experiment},
  author = {Josephine Paton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.01418},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Talk presented at NuPhys2018 (London, 19-21 December 2018). 4 pages, PDFLaTeX, 5 figures

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