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Abstract: SNO+ is a large scale multi-purpose neutrino experiment located 2km underground in SNOLAB, Canada. The 12m diameter detector is currently filled with 800 tonnes of liquid scintillator and is embarking on a wide physics program which includes the measurement of solar neutrinos, geoneutrinos, reactor antineutrinos and searches for nucleon decay and supernova neutrinos. Preparations are currently underway for the primary goal of searching for neutrinoless double beta decay, by loading 130Te into the scintillator. Following this, there will be a discussion of liquid scintillator (LS) detector design. LS detectors have played a central role in non-accelerator particle physics, including experiments such as KamLAND, Borexino, Daya Bay, RENO, Double Chooz and those now in early operation, construction or planning, such as SNO+, JUNO and THEIA. To combat the ever-increasing size and cost of these detectors, I will present an alternative easily-constructed design of a large LS detector, which still allows for low background levels and efficient light collection.
Biography: Experimental Neutrino Particle Physicist, TDLI/SJTU Post-doctoral fellow, PhD on the SNO+ Experiment at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Bachelors Degree in Physics at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland