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Publications (16)

physics.ins-det2020

Measurement of neutron-proton capture in the SNO+ water phase

The SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. R. Anderson +130

The SNO+ experiment collected data as a low-threshold water Cherenkov detector from September 2017 to July 2019. Measurements of the 2.2-MeV produced by neutron capture on hyd…

physics.ins-det2023

A Method to Load Tellurium in Liquid Scintillator for the Study of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

D. J. Auty, D. Bartlett, S. D. Biller +34

A method has been developed to load tellurium into liquid scintillator so as to permit searches for neutrinoless double beta decay with high sensitivity. The approach involves the…

hep-ex2022

Improved search for invisible modes of nucleon decay in water with the SNO+ detector

SNO+ Collaboration, :, A. Allega +116

This paper reports results from a search for single and multi-nucleon disappearance from the O nucleus in water within the \snoplus{} detector using all of the available dat…

hep-ex2024

Measurement of the B Solar Neutrino Flux Using the Full SNO+ Water Phase Dataset

SNO+ Collaboration, :, A. Allega +109

The SNO+ detector operated initially as a water Cherenkov detector. The implementation of a sealed covergas system midway through water data taking resulted in a significant reduct…

physics.ins-det2022

A Call to Arms Control: Synergies between Nonproliferation Applications of Neutrino Detectors and Large-Scale Fundamental Neutrino Physics Experiments

T. Akindele, T. Anderson, E. Anderssen +162

The High Energy Physics community can benefit from a natural synergy in research activities into next-generation large-scale water and scintillator neutrino detectors, now being st…

hep-ex2026

Cosmogenic Neutron Production in Water at SNO+

SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. Abreu +112

Accurate measurement of the cosmogenic muon-induced neutron yield is crucial for constraining a significant background in a wide range of low-energy physics searches. Although prev…

nucl-ex2023

Evidence of Antineutrinos from Distant Reactors using Pure Water at SNO+

SNO+ Collaboration, :, A. Allega +114

The SNO+ Collaboration reports the first evidence of reactor antineutrinos in a Cherenkov detector. The nearest nuclear reactors are located 240~km away in Ontario, Canada. This an…

nucl-ex2025

First Evidence of Solar Neutrino Interactions on C

SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. Abreu +111

The SNO+ Collaboration reports the first evidence of solar neutrinos interacting on nuclei. The charged current interaction proceeds through $^{13}\t…

hep-ex2024

Event-by-Event Direction Reconstruction of Solar Neutrinos in a High Light-Yield Liquid Scintillator

A. Allega, M. R. Anderson, S. Andringa +116

The direction of individual B solar neutrinos has been reconstructed using the SNO+ liquid scintillator detector. Prompt, directional Cherenkov light was separated from the slo…

physics.ins-det2021

Optical calibration of the SNO+ detector in the water phase with deployed sources

SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. R. Anderson +120

SNO+ is a large-scale liquid scintillator experiment with the primary goal of searching for neutrinoless double beta decay, and is located approximately 2 km underground in SNOLAB,…

physics.ins-det2021

The SNO+ Experiment

SNO+ Collaboration, :, V. Albanese +251

The SNO+ experiment is located 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. A low background search for neutrinoless double beta () decay will be conducted using 780 ton…

physics.ins-det2018

Light Yield of Perovskite Nanocrystal-Doped Liquid Scintillator

D. Gooding, J. Gruszko, C. Grant +2

Liquid scintillators doped with metals are needed for a variety of measurements in nuclear and particle physics. Nanoparticles provide a mechanism to dope the scintillator and thei…

hep-ex2025

Initial measurement of reactor antineutrino oscillation at SNO+

SNO+ Collaboration, :, A. Allega +119

The SNO+ collaboration reports its first spectral analysis of long-baseline reactor antineutrino oscillation using 114 tonne-years of data. Fitting the neutrino oscillation probabi…

hep-ex2025

Measurement of reactor antineutrino oscillation at SNO+

SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. Abreu +298

The SNO+ collaboration reports its second spectral analysis of reactor antineutrino oscillation using 286 tonne-years of new data. The measured energies of reactor antineutrino can…

hep-ex2025

Measurement of reactor antineutrino oscillations with 1.46 ktonne-years of data at SNO+

M. Abreu, A. Allega, M. R. Anderson +108

The SNO+ Collaboration reports new results on reactor antineutrino oscillations using data acquired from May 2022 through July 2025. The spectral analysis of a flux dominated by nu…

physics.ins-det2021

Development, characterisation, and deployment of the SNO+ liquid scintillator

SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. R. Anderson +223

A liquid scintillator consisting of linear alkylbenzene as the solvent and 2,5-diphenyloxazole as the fluor was developed for the SNO+ experiment. This mixture was chosen as it is…