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Physics Colloquium: Detecting Neutrinos with SNO+ at SNOLAB
Start Date: 10/20/2016Start Time: 3:30 PM
End Date: 10/20/2016End Time: 4:30 PM

Event Description
Erica Caden, PhD, SNOLAB, Canada

 

SNO+ is a kiloton-scale liquid scintillator neutrino detector. The successor to the SNO experiment, it is located 2km underground at the SNOLAB facility in Sudbury, Ontario. SNO+ is a multipurpose experiment designed to measure neutrino oscillation parameters, detect geo and reactor anti-neutrinos and low energy solar neutrinos while its main goal is to search for the rare nuclear process called neutrinoless double beta decay in the isotope Tellurium-130. I will discuss why measuring neutrino parameters is important, how SNO+ will make these measurements, and why SNOLAB is a great location for particle physics experiments.

References on SNO+:
Technical: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.05759 Cartoon and not technical at all yet completely accurate: http://underground.physics.berkeley.edu/img/misc/snoplus_explained.png

A virtual tour of SNOLAB is available here: https://www.snolab.ca/facility/vr-tour
Contact Information:
Name: Professor Michelle Dolinkski
Email: dolinski@physics.drexel.edu
Location:
Disque Hall, Room 919, 32 South 32nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Audience:
  • Undergraduate Students
  • Graduate Students
  • Faculty
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