Status and Prospects of the SNO+ Experiment
A.S. Inácio*
on behalf of the SNO+ collaboration*: corresponding author
Pre-published on:
March 01, 2022
Published on:
May 24, 2022
Abstract
SNO+ is a large volume liquid scintillator experiment for neutrino physics located at SNOLAB, Canada. Using the 12-m diameter acrylic vessel and the PMT array of the SNO detector, SNO+ has the primary physics goal of searching for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of the 130Te isotope. Data collected will also be used to explore additional physics topics such as reactor antineutrino oscillations, solar neutrinos, geoneutrinos, and to search for exotic physics. SNO+ completed its first phase as a pure-water Cherenkov detector, which focused on detector commissioning and calibration, and published its first physics results. Currently, the detector is completely filled with liquid scintillator, to which 1.3 tonnes of 130Te is expected to be loaded in late 2022.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.380.0274
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