Conveners
W1-5 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (DNP/PPD/DTP) | Double désintégration bêta sans neutrino (DPN/PPD/DPT)
- Alex Wright (TRIUMF)
Following the success of SNO, recognized internationally with the award of the 2015 Noble Prize in Physics, the underground laboratory has been expanded to the new SNOLab facility which is designed to house a variety of experiments that will investigate the properties of neutrinos and dark matter. The EXO collaboration is developing detection techniques that will enable a precision search for...
The SNO+ experiment is a large-scale liquid scintillator detector re-using the major infrastructure from the completed Sudbury Neutrino Observatory experiment (SNO) at Vale’s Creighton Mine near Sudbury, Canada. The original SNO 12 m diameter acrylic vessel has a hold-down net installed to counter the buoyancy of filling the detector with 780 tonnes of Linear Alkyl Benzene (LAB) within the...
The Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) is a particle physics experiment searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in xenon-136 with a 200-kg time projection chamber. Efforts are currently being made to enhance the experiment’s sensitivity with the development of a 5 tonne-scale detector, the next Enriched Xenon Observatory (nEXO). Major experimental improvements include the use of low noise...
SNO+ will be an organic liquid scintillator experiment, a successor of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO). It has been designed and optimized to maximize sensitivity to neutrinoless double beta decay when the organic scintillator, a mineral oil, will be loaded with the isotope of tellurium-130. The first phase of this competitive search is anticipated to begin as early as 2018.
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SNO+ is a multi-purpose neutrino experiment aiming to explore the unknown properties of neutrinos. The main physics goal of SNO+ is to explore whether the neutrinos are Majorana-type particles by searching for neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{130}$Te. The whole experiment can be divided into three stages: first the water phase, then the scintillator phase and finally the tellurium-loaded...
