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The SNO+ experiment will retrofit the SNO detector [1] by replacing its heavy water target with a liquid scintillator one. The SNO detector has several features that are ideal for new investigations.
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the description of Cherenkov radiation roughly follows the one given in [17].
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Molecular sizes are 2–3 orders of magnitude larger than the wavelength of optical light and so dipoles of varying orientation average to zero.
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Dunger, J. (2019). The SNO+ Experiment. In: Event Classification in Liquid Scintillator Using PMT Hit Patterns. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31616-7_2
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