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Clarence Virtue Laurentian University The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory began operation last year and has been accumulating data under stable operating conditions since October. The principle physics result that SNO will produce, is the neutral current to charged current ratio which will, in a model independent fashion, directly answer the question of whether the "solar neutrino problem" is due to neutrino oscillations. To arrive at this result it is foreseen that SNO will take data in three distinct operating modes. In the present mode, with pure D2O in the detector, we have limited sensitivity to the neutral current reaction. After a brief description of the detector the talk will focus on the data and work in progress to extract and understand the neutrino signal.
Wednesday, May 17th 2000, 15:30 |