May 15 – 21, 2022
America/New_York timezone

Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in the SNO+ Experiment

May 17, 2022, 4:35 PM
25m
Arcade Ballroom: West

Arcade Ballroom: West

Oral talk - Experiment Double beta decay: experiments and nuclear matrix elements Parallel

Speaker

William Parker (Oxford University)

Description

SNO+ is a large-scale multi-purpose neutrino detector, located 2 km underground at SNOLAB, Canada. The primary aim of the experiment is to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ), along with a variety of other physics programs including detection of solar, reactor, and supernova neutrinos, measuring the geoneutrino flux, and searching for invisible nucleon decay. The experiment has completed data taking during a commissioning phase filled with water and is now fully filled with 780 tonnes of liquid scintillator. Finally, the scintillator will be loaded with several tonnes of tellurium to facilitate the 0νββ search. This talk will present recent results, including the first low energy event by event direction reconstruction in liquid scintillation, as well as the preparations for 0νββ and the projected sensitivities to half-life limits and effective Majorana mass measurements.

Primary author

William Parker (Oxford University)

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