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Current Status and Future Prospects of the SNO+ Experiment
| dc.contributor.author | SNO+ collaboration (156 authors) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Andringa, S. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Barros, N. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Carvalho, J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Chauhan, D. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lozza, V. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Maio, A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Maneira, J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Prior, G. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-04T07:45:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-04T07:45:15Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2019-02-04T07:45:15Z | |
| dc.description.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. | |
| dc.description.version | Peer Reviewed | |
| dc.identifier | Adv.High Energy Phys. 2016 (2016) 6194250 Advances in High Energy Physics, vol. 2016, 6194250; DOI 10.1155/2016/6194250 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6194250 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/26908 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.title | Current Status and Future Prospects of the SNO+ Experiment | |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt |
| rcaap.type | article |