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Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
The
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
, or SNO for short, is located over a mile underground in an old mine near
Sudbury
,
Ontario
,
Canada
. The detector, made of
heavy water
, is designed to detect cosmic
neutrinos
, with the objectives of understanding the
solar neutrino problem
and
neutrino mass[?]
.
The SNO site is
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/
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