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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 111: Niederenergie-Neutrinophysik/Suche nach Dunkler Materie 6

T 111.1: Group Report

Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 16:45–17:05, ZHG 103

The SNO+ experiment: overview and status — •Valentina Lozza, Nuno Barros, Axel Boeltzig, Felix Krueger, Laura Neumann, Belina von Krosigk, and Kai Zuber — TU Dresden, IKTP, D-01069 Dresden

The SNO+ (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory plus scintillator) experiment is the follow up of the SNO experiment, replacing the heavy water volume with about 780 tons of liquid scintillator (LAB). The unique location in the deepest underground laboratory in the world, and the use of ultra-clean materials makes the detector suitable for neutrinos studies like the detection of pep and CNO solar neutrinos, geo-neutrinos originated from radioactivity in the earth, the possible observation of neutrinos from supernovae and the study of reactor oscillation. Complementing this neutrino program, SNO+ will also search for neutrinoless double beta decay. In this phase the liquid scintillator will be loaded with 0.1% of natural Neodymium allowing the study of 150Nd (5.6% abundance) neutrinoless double beta decay. A review of the general SNO+ setup, the physics goals and the current status will be presented. This work is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG).