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The SNO+ experiment is built into the large cavern at SNOLAB, it consists of a central 12 meter diameter acrylic sphere filled with scintillating cocktail linear alkyl benzene and wavelength shifting fluors surrounded ~9400, 8 inch PMTs held in place by a geodesic support structure. The physics goals of the experiment focus on several aspects of neutrino physics, from solar, reactor and geologically produced neutrinos with the overarching goal to perform a search for neutrinoless double beta decay using tellurium-130.
A lesser discussed topic in experimental physics is simply that of, ‘how does an experiment take its raw data, and hand it to analysers’. Here we will discuss how the SNO+ experiment can produce high quality data using electronics nearing 30 years old, the steps, the quirks and the challenges this poses.