May 26 – 27, 2026
SNOLAB
Canada/Eastern timezone

Cleaning program for SNO+ internal calibration sources

May 26, 2026, 2:45 PM
20m
Fraser Duncan Auditorium (SNOLAB)

Fraser Duncan Auditorium

SNOLAB

Creighton Mine #9 1039 Regional Road 24 Lively, ON P3Y 1N2

Speaker

Matt Depatie (Queen's University)

Description

Internal calibration sources used in SNO+ have been deployed last year (2025). In order to maintain the quality of the liquid scintillator in the SNO+ Acrylic Vessel (AV), calibration sources must be cleaned and confirmed to be at the desired cleanliness level for SNO+ scintillator. A bespoke Source Cleaning Vessel (SCV) was developed for this task, recirculating a closed-loop volume of SNO+ liquid scintillator. Cleanliness quality for the sources was determined using Liquid Particle Counting (LPC) and UV-Vis spectroscopy of the cleaning scintillator.

Author

Matt Depatie (Queen's University)

Presentation materials