| Title: | Current Status and Future Prospects of the SNO+ Experiment |
Authors: | SNO+ Collaboration
Andringa, S.
Arushanova, E.
Asahi, S.
Askins, M.
Auty, D. J.
Back, A. R.
Barnard, Z.
Barros, N.
Beier, E. W.
Bialek, A.
Biller, S. D.
Blucher, E.
Bonventre, R.
Braid, D.
Caden, E.
Callaghan, E.
Caravaca, J.
Carvalho, J.
Cavalli, L.
Chauhan, D.
Chen, M.
Chkvorets, O.
Clark, K.
Cleveland, B.
Coulter, I. T.
Cressy, D.
Dai, X.
Darrach, C.
Davis-Purcell, B.
Deen, R.
Depatie, M. M.
Descamps, F.
Di Lodovico, F.
Duhaime, N.
Duncan, F.
Dunger, J.
Falk, E.
Fatemighomi, N.
Ford, R.
Gorel, P.
Grant, C.
Grullon, S.
Guillian, E.
Hallin, A. L.
Hallman, D.
Hans, S.
Hartnell, J.
Harvey, P.
Hedayatipour, M.
Heintzelman, W. J.
Helmer, R. L.
Hreljac, B.
Hu, J.
Iida, T.
Jackson, C. M.
Jelley, N. A.
Jillings, C.
Jones, C.
Jones, P. G.
Kamdin, K.
Kaptanoglu, T.
Kaspar, J.
Keener, P.
Khaghani, P.
Kippenbrock, L.
Klein, J. R.
Knapik, R.
Kofron, J. N.
Kormos, L. L.
Korte, S.
Kraus, C.
Krauss, C. B.
Labe, K.
Lam, I.
Lan, C.
Land, B. J.
Langrock, S.
LaTorre, A.
Lawson, I.
Lefeuvre, G. M.
Leming, E. J.
Lidgard, J.
Liu, X.
Liu, Y.
Lozza, V.
Maguire, S.
Maio, A.
Majumdar, K.
Manecki, S.
Maneira, J.
Marzec, E.
Mastbaum, A.
McCauley, N.
McDonald, A. B.
McMillan, J. E.
Mekarski, P.
Miller, C.
Mohan, Y.
Mony, E.
Mottram, M. J.
Novikov, V.
O'Keeffe, H. M.
O'Sullivan, E.
Orebi Gann, G. D.
Parnell, M. J.
Peeters, S. J. M.
Pershing, T.
Petriw, Z.
Prior, G.
Prouty, J. C.
Quirk, S.
Reichold, A.
Robertson, A.
Rose, J.
Rosero, R.
Rost, P. M.
Rumleskie, J.
Schumaker, M. A.
Schwendener, M. H.
Scislowski, D.
Secrest, J.
Seddighin, M.
Segui, L.
Seibert, S.
Shantz, T.
Shokair, T. M.
Sibley, L.
Sinclair, J. R.
Singh, K.
Skensved, P.
S oerensen, A.
Sonley, T.
Stainforth, R.
Strait, M.
Stringer, M. I.
Svoboda, R.
Tatar, J.
Tian, L.
Tolich, N.
Tseng, J.
Tseung, H. W. C.
Van Berg, R.
Vázquez-Jáuregui, E.
Virtue, C.
von Krosigk, B.
Walker, J. M. G.
Walker, M.
Wasalski, O.
Waterfield, J.
White, R. F.
Wilson, J. R.
Winchester, T. J.
Wright, A.
Yeh, M.
Zhao, T.
Zuber, K. |
Keywords: | Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors; High Energy Physics - Experiment |
Issue Date: | 24-Aug-2015 |
Publisher: | Hindawi |
Serial title, monograph or event: | Advances in High Energy Physics |
Volume: | 2016 |
Abstract: | SNO+ is a large liquid scintillator-based experiment located 2km 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 (0$\nu\beta\beta$) 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
55-133 meV, 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 0$\nu\beta\beta$ Phase I is foreseen for 2017. |
Description: | Published in "Neutrino Masses and Oscillations" of Advances in High
Energy Physics (Hindawi) |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/108414 |
ISSN: | 1687-7357
1687-7365 |
DOI: | 10.1155/2016/6194250 |
Rights: | openAccess |
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