Por Valentina Lozza (LIP - Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas).
SNO+ is a large multi-purpose liquid scintillator based experiment, with the main physics goal of searching for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of 130Te. Additional physics topics include the measurement of solar neutrinos, antineutrinos from reactors and the Earth, supernova neutrinos and search for exotics physics. The first of the three SNO+ phases started in May 2017, with the detector filled with ultra-pure water. In July 2019, the transition to the liquid scintillator phase has begun. As of today, the detector is completely full with scintillator and can be used to understand the background sources not related to the tellurium loading. This talk presents the current status of the experiment, its results, and the prospects for the neutrinoless double-beta decay search.
Short bio: Valentina Lozza completed her PhD in Physics at the University of Trieste in 2010 working within the CAST (Cern Axion Solar telescope) experiment. She was the responsible for the development of a low energy low background detector to measure solar axions converted into visible photons. Afterwards, she did a postdoc at the Institute for nuclear and particle physics (IKTP) in Dresden (Germany), where she joined the SNO+ collaboration. In 2017 she moved to LIP in Portugal with a FCT Investigador position, still working within the SNO+ experiment. In SNO+ she is the physics analysis coordinator, the leader of the radioactive background group and is responsible for 2 calibration sources to be deployed in the detector.
