The SNO+ Experiment

Understand

The SNO+ experiment is the follow-up to the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO).

• The heavy water that was in SNO will be replaced with a liquid scintillator of linear alkylbenzene (plus fluor).
• SNO+ has many physics goals including detecting pep and CNO solar neutrinos, detecting geo-neutrinos, studying reactor neutrino oscillations, serving as a supernova neutrino detector and carrying out a search for neutrinoless double beta decay by adding neodymium to the liquid scintillator.
• Since a large amount of 150Nd isotope can be added to SNO+, a competitive search would be possible, with sensitivity below 100 meV using natural Nd and sensitivity below 40 meV with enriched neodymium.