Title: Searching for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with SNO+

Speaker: Prof. Mark Chen (Queen's University）

Moderator: Prof. CAO Jun

Time: 10:00AM, June 10, 2015

Place: Room C305, IHEP Main Building

Abstract：

SNO+ is the conversion of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory into a liquid scintillator detector, enabling a broad program in neutrino physics. An important goal of the experiment is to search for neutrinoless double beta decay in the isotope tellurium-130, by adding 0.5% Te in the 780 tonnes of liquid scintillator in the detector. This would result in 1,330 kg of isotope being used and this brings the search for double beta decay to the tonne scale. SNO+ physics goals and the status of the experiment will be presented.

About the speaker：

Prof. Mark Chen was born in Canada. He received his PhD at Caltech in 1994. He returned to Canada and became a faculty member at Queen's University in 2000, after worked as a postdoc and then Assistant Professor at Princeton University.

Prof. Mark Chen is now the Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics and Professor at Queen's University, a Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and the Director and Spokesperson for the SNO+ experiment.