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T1 - Current status and future prospects of the SNO+ experiment
AU - Andringa, S.
AU - Arushanova, E.
AU - Asahi, S.
AU - Askins, M.
AU - Auty, D. J.
AU - Back, A. R.
AU - Barnard, Z.
AU - Barros, N.
AU - Beier, E. W.
AU - Bialek, A.
AU - Biller, S. D.
AU - Blucher, E.
AU - Bonventre, R.
AU - Braid, D.
AU - Caden, E.
AU - Callaghan, E.
AU - Caravaca, J.
AU - Carvalho, J.
AU - Cavalli, L.
AU - Chauhan, D.
AU - Chkvorets, O.
AU - Clark, K.
AU - Cleveland, B.
AU - Coulter, I. T.
AU - Cressy, D.
AU - Dai, X.
AU - Darrach, C.
AU - Davis-Purcell, B.
AU - Deen, R.
AU - Depatie, M. M.
AU - Descamps, F.
AU - Lodovico, F. Di
AU - Duhaime, N.
AU - Duncan, F.
AU - Dunger, J.
AU - Falk, E.
AU - Fatemighomi, N.
AU - Ford, R.
AU - Gorel, P.
AU - Grant, C.
AU - Grullon, S.
AU - Guillian, E.
AU - Hallin, A. L.
AU - Hallman, D.
AU - Hans, S.
AU - Hartnell, J.
AU - Harvey, P.
AU - Kormos, L. L.
AU - O'Keeffe, H. M.
AU - Parnell, M. J.
AU - SNO+ Collaboration
N1 - Copyright © 2016 S. Andringa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The publication of this article was funded by SCOAP3.
PY - 2016/1/25
Y1 - 2016/1/25
N2 - 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 multi-purpose 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 to deploy 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, geo-neutrinos, 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.
AB - 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 multi-purpose 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 to deploy 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, geo-neutrinos, 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.
KW - physics.ins-det
KW - hep-ex
U2 - 10.1155/2016/6194250
DO - 10.1155/2016/6194250
M3 - Journal article
VL - 2016
JO - Advances in High Energy Physics
JF - Advances in High Energy Physics
SN - 1687-7357
M1 - 6194250
ER -