Decades of Discovery: Celebrating the legacy of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Contribution List

13. Opening Remarks

11/19/26, 9:00 AM

Symposium

7. Let There be Light, and Neutrinos

Hamish Robertson

11/19/26, 9:15 AM

Symposium

8. The Legacy and Future of Neutrino Observatories

Kendall Mahn

11/19/26, 10:00 AM

Symposium

9. SNO and the Nobel Prize

Art McDonald

11/19/26, 11:10 AM

Symposium

10. Micro-talks: The Early Days of SNO

Carol Woodliffe, Nancy Brown, Reg Michaud

11/19/26, 11:50 AM

Symposium

11. From SNO to SNOLAB

Richard Ford (SNOLAB)

11/19/26, 1:30 PM

Symposium

12. SNOLAB Today

Jodi Cooley (SNOLAB)

11/19/26, 2:10 PM

Symposium

14. Closing remarks

11/19/26, 2:50 PM

Symposium

3. Calibration of the SNO+ Scintillator Detector with an AmBe Neutron Source

Poster Session

The SNO+ experiment is a kilotonne-scale liquid scintillator (LS) neutrino detector located 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Ontario. The detector inherits much of its infrastructure from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) experiment, most prominently the 12 m diameter acrylic vessel (AV) now housing approximately 780 tonnes of LS. The AV is surrounded by a 17 m diameter array of...

2. Liquid scintillator purification for SNO+

Poster Session

SNO+ is a neutrino and neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment located 2 km underground at SNOLAB, Canada. The experiment developed a novel liquid scintillator comprising Linear Alkylbenzene (LAB) as the solvent and 2,5-diphenyloxazole (PPO) as the primary fluor, with bisMSB as a wavelength shifter. Selected for its acrylic compatibility, competitive light yield, long attenuation length,...

5. Not Your Average Cup of Te: The SNO+ Tellurium Loading Project

Poster Session

The SNO+ experiment, located 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Ontario, aims to investigate fundamental properties of neutrinos through the search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ). This search requires the addition of tellurium-130 into the detector's liquid scintillator, presenting significant chemical and engineering challenges.

The SNO+ Tellurium Loading Project involves...

6. Scintillator Calibration in SNO+

Poster Session

SNO+ has been operational as a liquid scintillator neutrino detector since 2022. Specific hardware had been designed to maintain the strict radiological background mitigation criteria of the experiment. The new calibration hardware has been demonstrated to not impact the radiogenic load of the experiment. The excellent position response and accuracy of the source deployment hardware has...

1. The SNO+ data acquisition (DAQ)

Poster Session

The SNO+ data acquisition (DAQ) system builds upon the core electronics used in the Nobel Prize-winning SNO experiment. This poster details the complete DAQ chain, tracing the signal from raw photomultiplier tube (PMT) pulses to the final data written to disk. We describe the specific thresholds, trigger logic, and timing measurements performed by the custom electronics that remain in...

4. Two Event Analyses in SNO+

Poster Session

SNO+ has conducted a number of analyses using coincident detector events that can be associated with anti-neutrinos from super-nova, reactors and the earth's mantel. A novel detection of charge current solar events has also been demonstrated. These measurements will be summarized with the prospects for understanding backgrounds in the Tellurium phase.