2019/03/28 by Paton, Josephine · 1 citation
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1904.01418
SNO+ is a large multipurpose neutrino detector situated 2km underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. It reuses the structure of the SNO experiment with numerous infrastructure upgrades and with heavy water replaced by ultra-pure liquid scintillator. The detector will be loaded with 0.5% natural tellurium in order to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ). The expected sensitivity after 5 years of data taking is T0ν 1/2 > 1.9 × 1026 years (90% CL). A future increase in loading could achieve a sensitivity of ∼1027 years.