Physics results from the SNO+ scintillator phase and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay prospects
A.S. Inacio
Full text: pdf
Pre-published on: January 12, 2026
Published on:
Abstract
SNO+ is a large multi-purpose neutrino detector located 2 km underground at SNOLAB, Canada, currently in operation filled with 780 tonnes of liquid scintillator as its target mass. The high light yield, low background levels, and continually increasing livetime, allow the SNO+ collaboration to perform measurements of solar neutrinos, antineutrinos from reactors and the Earth, and searches for other rare events. The data is also being used to quantify backgrounds and understand the detector response in preparation for the search of neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{130}$Te. In a first phase, SNO+ will perform this search with 0.5% of natural tellurium by weight, for a predicted half-life sensitivity of $2\times10^{26}$ years (90% CL) with 3 years of livetime, followed by higher tellurium loadings, up to 3%, for sensitivities above $10^{27}$ years. These proceedings highlight the most recent physics results from the analysis of the SNO+ scintillator data, and discuss the prospects for the neutrinoless double beta decay search.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.485.0147
How to cite

Metadata are provided both in article format (very similar to INSPIRE) as this helps creating very compact bibliographies which can be beneficial to authors and readers, and in proceeding format which is more detailed and complete.

Open Access
Creative Commons LicenseCopyright owned by the author(s) under the term of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.