Cosmic Ray Physics at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

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May 2000

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American Physical Society, Second Meeting of the Northwest Section 2000 May 19-20, 2000 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon, abs

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The construction of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) project was started in 1992 and completed in April, 1999. The SNO detector has been in smooth operation since then, collecting a continuous stream of solar and "atmospheric" (cosmic ray-induced) neutrinos. It is also sensitive to a supernova event anywhere in our Galaxy. The observatory is a 1,000 tonne heavy water Cherenkov detector situated 2,070 m underground in Inco's Creighton Mine near Sudbury, Ontario. It is sited at great depth precisely to get away from cosmic rays, yet SNO is proving to be an excellent detector of cosmic ray secondaries, muons and atmospheric neutrinos; the overburden of rock merely filters out the less interesting, low energy muons. In the talk I will give an overview of the physics possibilties at SNO provided by cosmic ray-induced events.

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