Andringa, S, Arushanova, E, Asahi, S, Askins, M, Auty, DJ, Back, AR, Barnard, Z, Barros, N, Beier, EW, Bialek, A et al (show 146 more authors)
(2016)
Current Status and Future Prospects of the SNO plus Experiment.
ADVANCES IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2016.
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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.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | Published in "Neutrino Masses and Oscillations" of Advances in High Energy Physics (Hindawi) |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | physics.ins-det, physics.ins-det, hep-ex |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
Date Deposited: | 15 Sep 2016 10:41 |
Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 07:30 |
DOI: | 10.1155/2016/6194250 |
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URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3003312 |