Speaker
Dr
Szymon Manecki
(Queen's University)
Description
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.
In this presentation, I will cover some of the fundamentals of the unique metal loading technique developed by the SNO+ collaboration, characteristics and long term stability and compatibility properties of the scintillator cocktail.
Author
Dr
Szymon Manecki
(Queen's University)
