Abstract
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) [1] is a 1000 tonne heavy water Cerenkov detector, that has finished its data taking period on November 29th 2006. The heavy water was contained in a 12 m diameter acrylic sphere, surrounded by 9500 PMTs. It is located in INCOs Creighton mine in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada - 2039 m (6000 mwe) underground. The so-called third phase of the experiment had in addition to the heavy water an array of 36 3He and 4 4He proportional counters installed. In this configuration it can detect neutrons produced by the neutral current interaction of solar neutrinos by neutron capture in these counters (NCDs = neutral current detection array). This is a way to determine the neutral current flux independent of the PMT system with very different systematic uncertainties and is therefore determining the CC and NC reactions in separate streams.
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