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The SNO+ Experiment: Reactor & Solar $\nu$ Prospects

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2022-11-11 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

The SNO+ experiment is a large-scale, multipurpose neutrino experiment situated 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Canada. Successor to the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, the SNO+ detector has inherited much of the original infrastructure including the 12-m diameter acrylic vessel which serves as the main detector body. Initially filled with ultrapure water, the SNO+ experiment has completed operations as a water Cherenkov detector, having set new limits on multiple invisible nucleon decay modes, performed measurements on 8B^8\mathrm{B} solar neutrinos, and made the first observation of reactor antineutrinos in pure water. The detector medium has now been replaced with liquid scintillator, and a new physics programme is being pursued including measurements of solar neutrinos and Δm122\Delta\mathrm{m}^2_{12} from reactor antineutrinos. The liquid scintillator will be doped with >4 tonnes of natTe^{\mathrm{nat}}\mathrm{Te} to enable a search for neutrinoless double beta decay.

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@article{arxiv.2211.05538,
  title  = {The SNO+ Experiment: Reactor & Solar $\nu$ Prospects},
  author = {Benjamin Tam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.05538},
  year   = {2022}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure

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