SNO+ is a neutrino experiment located at SNOLAB, in Sudbury, Ontario. The main goals of the experiment are to measure the neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te and find out is neutrinos are their own antiparticles or not. SNO+ will also be able to measure solar neutrinos, geoneutrinos and reactor neutrinos.
My group is involved in the construction of several parts of the SNO+ experiment: a radon monitor for the volume above the active liquid, a system of under water cameras for the monitoring of the cavity that SNO+ is housed inside, hardware for the calibration of the experiment, such as calibration source connector for ultra-clean conditions. Alberta students contribute to the construction, data taking, data analysis, data processing using Compute Canada high performance computing infrastructure to simulate and analyze neutrino data.
To find out more about SNO+ please visit the websites listed below. If you are interested in the physics of SNO+ and want to find out about graduate opportunities, please contact me directly by e-mail.