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Current status and future prospects of the SNO+ experiment
journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-09, 01:09 authored by S Andringa, E Arushanova, S Asahi, M Askins, D J Auty, A R Back, Z Barnard, N Barros, E W Beier, A Bialek, S D Biller, E Blucher, R Bonventre, D Braid, E Caden, E Callaghan, J Caravaca, J Carvalho, L Cavalli, D Chauhan, M Chen, O Chkvorets, K Clark, B Cleveland, I T Coulter, D Cressy, X Dai, C Darrach, B Davis-Purcell, R Deen, M M Depatie, F Descamps, F Di Lodovico, N Duhaime, F Duncan, J Dunger, Elisabeth FalkElisabeth Falk, N Fatemighomi, R Ford, P Gorel, C Grant, S Grullon, E Guillian, A L Hallin, D Hallman, S Hans, Jeff HartnellJeff Hartnell, P Harvey, M Hedayatipour, W J Heintzelman, R L Helmer, B Hreljac, J Hu, T Iida, C M Jackson, N A Jelley, C Jillings, C Jones, P G Jones, K Kamdin, T Kaptanoglu, J Kaspar, P Keener, P Khaghani, L Kippenbrock, J R Klein, R Knapik, J N Kofron, L L Kormos, S Korte, C Kraus, C B Krauss, K Labe, I Lam, C Lan, B J Land, S Langrock, A LaTorre, I Lawson, G M Lefeuvre, E J Leming, J Lidgard, X Liu, Y Liu, V Lozza, S Maguire, A Maio, K Majumdar, S Manecki, J Maneira, E Marzec, A Mastbaum, N McCauley, A B McDonald, J E McMillan, P Mekarski, C Miller, Y Mohan, E Mony, M J Mottram, V Novikov, H M O’Keeffe, E O’Sullivan, G D Orebi Gann, M J Parnell, Simon PeetersSimon Peeters, T Pershing, Z Petriw, G Prior, J C Prouty, S Quirk, A Reichold, A Robertson, J Rose, R Rosero, P M Rost, J Rumleskie, M A Schumaker, M H Schwendener, D Scislowski, J Secrest, M Seddighin, L Segui, S Seibert, T Shantz, T M Shokair, L Sibley, J R Sinclair, K Singh, P Skensved, A Sörensen, T Sonley, R Stainforth, M Strait, M I Stringer, R Svoboda, J Tatar, L Tian, N Tolich, J Tseng, H W C Tseung, R Van Berg, E Vázquez-Jáuregui, C Virtue, B von Krosigk, J M G Walker, M Walker, O Wasalski, J Waterfield, R F White, J R Wilson, T J Winchester, A Wright, M Yeh, T Zhao, K ZuberSNO+is a large liquid scintillator-based experiment located 2 km underground at SNOLAB, Sudbury,Canada. It reuses the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory detector, consisting of a 12m diameter acrylic vessel which will be filled with about 780 tonnes of ultra-pure liquid scintillator. Designed as a multipurpose neutrino experiment, the primary goal of SNO+ is a search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay (0BB) of 130Te. In Phase I, the detector will be loaded with 0.3% natural tellurium, corresponding to nearly 800 kg of 130Te, with an expected effective Majorana neutrino mass sensitivity in the region of 55–133meV, just above the inverted mass hierarchy. Recently, the possibility of deploying up to ten times more natural tellurium has been investigated, which would enable SNO+ to achieve sensitivity deep into the parameter space for the inverted neutrino mass hierarchy in the future. Additionally, SNO+ aims to measure reactor antineutrino oscillations, low energy solar neutrinos, and geoneutrinos, to be sensitive to supernova neutrinos, and to search for exotic physics. A first phase with the detector filled with water will begin soon, with the scintillator phase expected to start after a few months of water data taking. The 01BB Phase I is foreseen for 2017.
Funding
Optical Calibration Development for SNO+; G0753; STFC-SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL; ST/J001007/1
Consolidated Grant; G0927; STFC-SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL; ST/K001329/1
History
Publication status
- Published
File Version
- Published version
Journal
Advances in High Energy PhysicsISSN
1687-7357Publisher
Hindawi Publishing CorporationExternal DOI
Volume
2016Page range
1-21Department affiliated with
- Physics and Astronomy Publications
Full text available
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- Yes