Abstract
This review paper provides a summary of the published results of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) experiment that was carried out by an international scientific collaboration with data collected during the period from 1999 to 2006. By using heavy water as a detection medium, the SNO experiment demonstrated clearly that solar electron neutrinos from 8B decay in the solar core change into other active neutrino flavors in transit to Earth. The reaction on deuterium that has equal sensitivity to all active neutrino flavors also provides a very accurate measure of the initial solar flux for comparison with solar models. This review summarizes the results from three phases of solar neutrino detection as well as other physics results obtained from analyses of the SNO data.
Highlights
Operational since 1999, the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory has ambitious plans for the future James Gillies reports. It all began 1.8 billion years ago when of 40°C, making for a sticky 1.5 km walk geologists believe that a meteorite struck along the "SNO drift" - the tunnel conthe Earth, creating what is the necting the mine shaft to SNO's under
Scientists and miners are indistinguishconcentration of nickel mines, and, in able in all but their conversation as they one of them, scientists accompany the descend in the lift
The Sudbury landscape still has an into the lab must be carefully wrapped unearthly quality about it
Summary
It all began 1.8 billion years ago when of 40°C, making for a sticky 1.5 km walk geologists believe that a meteorite struck along the "SNO drift" - the tunnel conthe Earth, creating what is the necting the mine shaft to SNO's under-. The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory - Canada's eye on the universe Today the trees are coming 2000 metres underground - excavation of the Scrupulous attention to cleanliness back, thanks to a large degree to the underground cavity for the Sudbury Neutrino is one of the keys to SNO's success.
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