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Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

(SNO)
(Canadian underground neutrino detector)

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) was an underground neutrino observatory in Ontario, Canada in operation from 1999 through 2006, aiming to detect solar neutrinos using a scintillator of heavy water (i.e., with 2H) with hopes of solving the solar neutrino problem. Super-K (in Japan) did this earlier, but SNO produced stronger confirmation. More recently, the detector has been revived in modified form, now called SNO+. It now uses a different substance as scintillator and its current goal is detection of neutrinoless double beta decay as well as general detection of neutrinos and of various particle interactions.


(observatory,neutrinos,Canada,past)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_Neutrino_Observatory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNO%2B
https://sno.phy.queensu.ca/
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Particles/sno.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005PhST..121...29M/abstract
https://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/C040802/papers/WET001.PDF
https://www.snolab.ca/
https://snoplus.phy.queensu.ca/

Referenced by pages:
Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS)
neutrino observatory
neutrinoless double beta decay
PICO experiment (PICO)

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