The liquid scintillator phase of SNO+: current status and future prospects

by Valentina Lozza (LIP)

Thursday 14 Dec 2023, 11:30 → 13:00 Europe/Lisbon

Seminar Room (LIP)

Youtube URL :: https://youtu.be/a20Z8iYglJ4

 

The SNO+ experiment is a large multi-purpose neutrino experiment, located at a depth of 2km in a mine in Sudbury, Canada. Its primary physics goal is the search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay with 130Te.
After a first phase in which the SNO+ experiment operated as a water Cherenkov detector, as of April 2022 SNO+ is taking data with liquid scintillator as target material. The current phase allows the study of solar neutrinos, reactor and geo anti-neutrinos, as well as to measure the radioactive backgrounds prior to the tellurium loading. 3900 kg of natural tellurium (0.5% by weight) will be added to the scintillator in 2025, for a predicted sensitivity on the neutrinoless double-beta decay half-life of 130Te of about 2e26 years (90% CL) with 3 years of livetime. Higher tellurium loading will follow for predicted sensitivities above 1e27 years (3% loading).
In this talk I will focus on the current status of the experiment, its latest results, and the prospects for the neutrinoless double-beta decay search.

ZOOM: https://cern.zoom.us/j/67461664606?pwd=ekNaaytYb20yMTZhdTdjb3BvZUZ6Zz09

 

 

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