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 |