Status of the Neutral Current Detector Array at SNO
Abstract
The third phase of data taking at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) is currently scheduled to begin in the autumn of 2003 with the installation of the Neutral Current Detectors (NCD). The NCDs, an array of ^3He proportional counters, will make an independent measurement of the flux of ^8B solar neutrinos at SNO. The latest results in experimental neutrino physics have given the SNO collaboration the opportunity to maximize the physics capabilities of SNO by deploying just half of the initially proposed NCD array. In order to minimize backgrounds, only the best counters with the lowest intrinsic radioactivity have been selected for deployment into the SNO detector.
- Publication:
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APS Northwest Section Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- May 2003
- Bibcode:
- 2003APS..NWS.H2007C