Physics results from the SNO+ scintillator phase and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay prospects
Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: SNO+ is a large multi-purpose neutrino detector located 2 km underground at SNOLAB, Canada, currently in operation filled with 780 tonnes of liquid scintillator as its target mass. The high light yield, low background levels, and continually increasing livetime, allow the SNO+ collaboration to perform measurements of solar neutrinos, antineutrinos from reactors and the Earth, and searches for other rare events. The data is also being used to quantify backgrounds and understand the detector response in preparation for the search of neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{130}$Te. In a first phase, SNO+ will perform this search with 0.5% of natural tellurium by weight, for a predicted half-life sensitivity of $2\times10^{26}$ years (90% CL) with 3 years of livetime, followed by higher tellurium loadings, up to 3%, for sensitivities above $10^{27}$ years. These proceedings highlight the most recent physics results from the analysis of the SNO+ scintillator data, and discuss the prospects for the neutrinoless double beta decay search.
DOI: 10.22323/1.485.0147
Author: Ana Sofia Inacio
Institution: University of Oxford
Language: English
Topic: Neutrino Physics Research
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funders: National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, Shandong University, UK Research and Innovation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Alliance de recherche numérique du Canada, National Nuclear Security Administration, HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Académico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Nuclear Physics, Fermilab
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