SNO with liquid scintillator: SNO+

✍ Scribed by C. Kraus

• Book ID: 104089390
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 98 KB
• Volume: 57
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0146-6410
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ppnp.2005.12.001

✦ Synopsis

The possibility of filling the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory with liquid scintillator (called SNO+) after the physics program with heavy water is completed at the end of 2006 is investigated. Located in the deepest underground site for neutrino physics, SNO+ has unique capabilities, including detection of pep and CNO solar neutrinos. SNO+ could also detect geo-neutrinos originating from radioactivity in the earth. The location is favourable for such a measurement since it is surrounded by a simple geological configuration. Furthermore a second phase is under study, where in addition a double beta decay isotope might be deployed in the liquid scintillator, resulting in a competitive next-generation search.