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Description
The SNO+ experiment, the successor to the Nobel prize winning Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, is a large liquid scintillator detector with the ultimate goal of observing neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$). Located 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada, SNO+ aims to make a low background measurement of the $0\nu\beta\beta$ half life of $^{130}$Te by loading tonnes of tellurium directly into the 2.2 g/L LAB+PPO scintillator currently in the detector.
This poster will discuss the planned deployment of Te in the SNO+ detector, and the expected sensitivity of the $0\nu\beta\beta$ half life measurement under different loading and live time scenarios. This will include descriptions of how the hit-level information from nearly 10000 photo-multiplier tubes (PMTs) is used to reconstruct position, energy, and particle type information for each triggered event, and how this information can be leveraged in the $0\nu\beta\beta$ analysis. Furthermore, results from fake datasets generated using the SNO+ simulation and analysis tool chain will be presented, providing rigorous estimates of the sensitivity of future results given the current backgrounds in the detector and the optics of the scintillator.