SNOLAB User Meeting 2026

Session

Spotlight

SPOTLIGHT

May 26, 2026, 2:15 PM

Fraser Duncan Auditorium (SNOLAB)

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12. The multi-physics observatory XLZD: global and Canadian efforts

Hugh Lippincott (UCSB), Hugh Lippincott (UCSB), Thomas Brunner (McGill University)

5/26/26, 2:15 PM

Talk

The XLZD Collaboration is developing an international experiment to search for WIMP dark matter down to the systematic limit imposed by astrophysical neutrinos and to search for neutrinoless double beta decay with a sensitivity competitive to other next-generation searches. Earlier this year a Canadian team of 18 scientists at 11 institutions joined these efforts with the goal of attracting...

14. DORY: An Optical Monitoring and Calibration Module for the nEXO Outer Detector

Ms Samin Majidi (McGill University)

5/27/26, 11:00 AM

Talk

Neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) is a hypothetical nuclear process in which two neutrons in a nucleus transform into two protons and two electrons without emitting electron antineutrinos. Its observation would demonstrate lepton number violation in weak processes and confirm that neutrinos are Majorana particles. Next-generation 0νββ searches using candidate isotopes aim to reach...

31. Q&A

5/27/26, 11:30 AM

13. First evidence of neutrino absorption on argon using Boron-8 solar neutrinos in DEAP-3600

Speaker TBD

5/27/26, 1:15 PM

Talk

We discuss the recent result of DEAP-3600 showing evidence for charged-current Boron-8 solar neutrino absorption on Argon-40. In a visible energy window corresponding to neutrino energies of 12.0 to 14.5 MeV, we observe 6 candidate events. This measurement is of 4.0 sigma significance, and corresponds to a cross section a factor of (2.4 +1.3 -1.0) times that of Bhattacharya, Goodman, and Garcia (2009).

32. Q&A

5/27/26, 1:45 PM