2014 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2014

Controlling Rn-222 ingress in the SNO+ detector

20 Jun 2014, 09:45

15m

C-112 (Laurentian University / Université Laurentienne)

Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant) Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD) (F1-5) Future of Cosmic Frontier: Dark Matter III and Dark Energy - PPD-DTP / Avenir de la frontière cosmique: matière sombre III et énergie sombre - PPD-DTP

Speaker

nasim fatemighomi (Queen's University)

Description

SNO+ is a multi-tonne scale experiment situated at SNOLAB. The primary goal of SNO+ is to search for neutrinoless double beta decay. Another physics goal of SNO+ is to probe low energy solar neutrinos. Rn-222 daughters are problematic backgrounds to physics reach of SNO+. The SNO+ cover gas system is designed in order to prevent Rn-222 ingress in the detector. In this talk, I will present design, development and installation of this system.

Presentation materials

Slides

covergasCAP2014.pdf