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The SNO+ experiment

  • Sno+ Collaboration The Sno+ Collaboration
  • , V. Albanese
  • , R. Alves
  • , M. R. Anderson
  • , S. Andringa
  • , L. Anselmo
  • , E. Arushanova
  • , S. Asahi
  • , M. Askins
  • , D. J. Auty
  • , A. R. Back
  • , S. Back
  • , F. Bar o
  • , Z. Barnard
  • , A. Barr
  • , N. Barros
  • , D. Bartlett
  • , R. Bayes
  • , C. Beaudoin
  • , E. W. Beier
  • G. Berardi, A. Bialek, S. D. Biller, E. Blucher, R. Bonventre, M. Boulay, D. Braid, E. Caden, E. J. Callaghan, J. Caravaca, J. Carvalho, L. Cavalli, D. Chauhan, M. Chen, O. Chkvorets, K. J. Clark, B. Cleveland, C. Connors, D. Cookman, I. T. Coulter, M. A. Cox, D. Cressy, X. Dai, C. Darrach, B. Davis-Purcell, C. Deluce, M. M. Depatie, F. Descamps, F. Di Lodovico, J. Dittmer, A. Doxtator, N. Duhaime, F. Duncan, J. Dunger, A. D. Earle, D. Fabris, E. Falk, A. Farrugia, N. Fatemighomi, C. Felber, V. Fischer, E. Fletcher, R. Ford, K. Frankiewicz, N. Gagnon, A. Gaur, J. Gauthier, A. Gibson-Foster, K. Gilje, O. I. González-Reina, D. Gooding, P. Gorel, K. Graham, C. Grant, J. Grove, S. Grullon, E. Guillian, S. Hall, A. L. Hallin, D. Hallman, S. Hans, J. Hartnell, P. Harvey, M. Hedayatipour, W. J. Heintzelman, J. Heise, R. L. Helmer, B. Hodak, M. Hodak, M. Hood, D. Horne, B. Hreljac, J. Hu, S. M.A. Hussain, T. Iida, A. S. Inácio, C. M. Jackson, N. A. Jelley, C. J. Jillings, C. Jones, P. G. Jones, K. Kamdin, T. Kaptanoglu, J. Kaspar, K. Keeter, C. Kefelian, P. Khaghani, L. Kippenbrock, J. R. Klein, R. Knapik, J. Kofron, L. L. Kormos, S. Korte, B. Krar, C. Kraus, C. B. Krauss, T. Kroupová, K. Labe, F. Lafleur, I. Lam, C. Lan, B. J. Land, R. Lane, S. Langrock, P. Larochelle, S. Larose, A. Latorre, I. Lawson, L. Lebanowski, G. M. Lefeuvre, E. J. Leming, A. Li, O. Li, J. Lidgard, B. Liggins, P. Liimatainen, Y. H. Lin, X. Liu, Y. Liu, V. Lozza, M. Luo, S. Maguire, A. Maio, K. Majumdar, S. Manecki, J. Maneira, R. D. Martin, E. Marzec, A. Mastbaum, A. Mathewson, N. McCauley, A. B. McDonald, K. McFarlane, P. Mekarski, M. Meyer, C. Miller, C. Mills, M. Mlejnek, E. Mony, B. Morissette, I. Morton-Blake, M. J. Mottram, S. Nae, M. Nirkko, L. J. Nolan, V. M. Novikov, H. M. O'Keeffe, E. O'Sullivan, G. D. Orebi Gann, M. J. Parnell, J. Paton, S. J.M. Peeters, T. Pershing, Z. Petriw, J. Petzoldt, L. Pickard, D. Pracsovics, G. Prior, J. C. Prouty, S. Quirk, S. Read, A. Reichold, S. Riccetto, R. Richardson, M. Rigan, I. Ritchie, A. Robertson, B. C. 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, I. Semenec, F. Shaker, T. Shantz, M. K. Sharma, T. M. Shokair, L. Sibley, J. R. Sinclair, K. Singh, P. Skensved, M. Smiley, T. Sonley, A. Sörensen, M. St-Amant, R. Stainforth, S. Stankiewicz, M. Strait, M. I. Stringer, A. Stripay, R. Svoboda, S. Tacchino, B. Tam, C. Tanguay, J. Tatar, L. Tian, N. Tolich, J. Tseng, H. W.C. Tseung, E. Turner, R. Van Berg, E. Vázquez-Jáuregui, J. G.C. Veinot, C. J. Virtue, B. Von Krosigk, J. M.G. Walker, M. Walker, J. Wallig, S. C. Walton, J. Wang, M. Ward, O. Wasalski, J. Waterfield, J. J. Weigand, R. F. White, J. R. Wilson, T. J. Winchester, P. Woosaree, A. Wright, J. P. Yanez, M. Yeh, T. Zhang, Y. Zhang, T. Zhao, K. Zuber, A. Zummo
  • Laurentian University
  • Laboratório de Instrumenta o e Física Experimental de Partículas (LIP)
  • Queen's University Kingston
  • Creighton Mine No. 9
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • Berkeley National Laboratory
  • University of California, Davis
  • University of Alberta
  • University of Sussex
  • University of Lisbon
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Technische Universität Dresden
  • University of Oxford
  • The University of Chicago
  • University of Coimbra
  • University of Liverpool
  • TRIUMF
  • King's College London
  • Boston University
  • National Autonomous University of Mexico
  • United States Department of Energy
  • University of Washington
  • Idaho State University
  • Norwich University
  • Lancaster University
  • Armstrong Atlantic State University
  • Institute for Nuclear Research

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Abstract

The SNO+ experiment is located 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. A low background search for neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay will be conducted using 780 tonnes of liquid scintillator loaded with 3.9 tonnes of natural tellurium, corresponding to 1.3 tonnes of 130Te. This paper provides a general overview of the SNO+ experiment, including detector design, construction of process plants, commissioning efforts, electronics upgrades, data acquisition systems, and calibration techniques. The SNO+ collaboration is reusing the acrylic vessel, PMT array, and electronics of the SNO detector, having made a number of experimental upgrades and essential adaptations for use with the liquid scintillator. With low backgrounds and a low energy threshold, the SNO+ collaboration will also pursue a rich physics program beyond the search for 0νββ decay, including studies of geo- and reactor antineutrinos, supernova and solar neutrinos, and exotic physics such as the search for invisible nucleon decay. The SNO+ approach to the search for 0νββ decay is scalable: a future phase with high 130Te-loading is envisioned to probe an effective Majorana mass in the inverted mass ordering region.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberP08059
JournalJournal of Instrumentation
Volume16
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2021

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Mathematical Physics
  • Instrumentation

Keywords

  • Double-beta decay detectors
  • Neutrino detectors
  • Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators)

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