Welcome to SNOLAB

SNOLAB is an underground science laboratory specializing in neutrino and dark matter physics. Situated two km below the surface in the Vale Inco Creighton Mine located near Sudbury Ontario Canada, SNOLAB is an expansion of the existing facilities constructed for the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) solar neutrino experiment. SNOLAB follows on the important achievements in neutrino physics achieved by SNO and other underground physics measurements. The primary scientific emphasis at SNOLAB will be on astroparticle physics with the principal topics being:
Low Energy Solar Neutrinos;
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay;
Cosmic Dark Matter Searches;
Supernova Neutrino Searches.

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News & Headlines

Sudbury Researchers Building Stronger Economy

Staff and Scientists at SNOLAB are delighted with the funding announcement coming from the Ministry of Research and Innovation today. Available here…

Rebooting the Search for Dark Matter

Astrophysicists in Sudbury are hoping to find the missing mass of our universe. Available here…
Government of Canada Invests in SNOLAB

CFI and the Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, announced more than $665 million for new state-of-the-art infrastructure at 41 Canadian research institutions.

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Physics for Mom
Hugh Lippincott, a graduate student at Yale University working on the DEAP/CLEAN Project, has developed an outstanding blog describing the physics that he studies at SNOLAB and Yale University.. Available here…

About SNOLAB

SNOLab surface

Located 2 km underground in the Vale Inco Ltd. Creighton Mine near Sudbury Ontario, SNOLAB is Canada's leading edge facility for the study of astroparticle physics.

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Education & Outreach

Our education team endeavours to facilitate an exchange of knowledge with the public and scientists from around the world to better understand our solar system. The desired outcome of our educational work is to have a network of healthy and resilient community partners with informed and active citizens better equipped to understand our goals here at SNOLAB now and in the future.