Current Status and Future Prospects of the SNO plus Experiment

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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) , Biller, SD, 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, IT, Cressy, D, Dai, X, Darrach, C, Davis-Purcell, B, Deen, R, Depatie, MM, 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, AL, Hallman, D, Hans, S, Hartnell, J, Harvey, P, Hedayatipour, M, Heintzelman, WJ, Helmer, RL, Hreljac, B, Hu, J, Iida, Jackson, CM, Jelley, NA, Jillings, C, Jones, C, Jones, PG, Kamdin, K, Kaptanoglu, T, Kaspar, J, Keener, P, Khaghani, P, Kippenbrock, L, Klein, JR, Knapik, R, Kofron, JN, Kormos, LL, Korte, S, Kraus, C, Krauss, CB, Labe, K, Lam, I, Lan, C, Land, BJ, Langrock, S, LaTorre, A, Lawson, I, Lefeuvre, GM, Leming, EJ, Lidgard, J, Liu, X, Liu, Y, Lozza, V, Maguire, S, Maio, A, Majumdar, K ORCID: 0000-0003-3473-2376, Manecki, S, Maneira, J, Marzec, E, Mastbaum, A, McCauley, N ORCID: 0000-0002-5982-5125, McDonald, AB, McMillan, JE, Mekarski, P, Miller, C, Mohan, Y, Mony, E, Mottram, MJ, Novikov, V, O'Keeffe, HM, O'Sullivan, E, Gann, GD Orebi, Parnell, J, Peeters, SJM, Pershing, T, Petriw, Z, Prior, G, Prouty, JC, Quirk, S, Reichold, A, Robertson, A, Rose, J ORCID: 0000-0002-3388-8136, Rosero, R, Rost, PM, Rumleskie, J, Schumaker, MA, Schwendener, MH, Scislowski, D, Secrest, J, Seddighin, M, Segui, L, Seibert, S, Shantz, T, Shokair, TM, Sibley, L, Sinclair, JR, Singh, K, Skensved, P, Soerensen, A, Sonley, T, Stainforth, R, Strait, M, Stringer, MI, Svoboda, R, Tatar, J, Tian, L, Tolich, N, Tseng, J, Tseung, HWC, Van Berg, R, Vzquez-Jauregui, E, Virtue, C, von Krosigk, B, Walker, JMG, Walker, M, Wasalski, O, Waterfield, J, White, RF, Wilson, JR, Winchester, TJ, Wright, A, Yeh, M, Zhao, T and Zuber, K (2016) Current Status and Future Prospects of the SNO plus Experiment ADVANCES IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2016 (1). 61-. ISSN 1687-7357, 1687-7365

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Abstract

SNO+ 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 12 m 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 (0ββ) 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 0νββ Phase I is foreseen for 2017.

Item Type:	Article
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:	22 May 2026 19:32
DOI:	10.1155/2016/6194250
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3003312
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