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 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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SNOLAB Scientist wins Top 40 under 40 award!

Christine Kraus (PhD) is an assistant professor in the department of physics at Laurentian University, and Canada Research Chair in Particle Astrophysics. She is the key onsite manager co-ordinating the construction for the conversion of SNO to SNOplus. She plays the guitar and flute, and is a member of the Ariadne Women's Choir.

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  • SNOLAB explains the OPERA results

    Neutrinos are a type of sub-atomic particle, which have no electrical charge, interact very weakly with normal material and have a very small, but non-zero, mass. MORE...

    New Constraints on Neutrino Velocities

    Cohen and Glashow
    Physics Department, Boston University
    Boston, MA 02215, USA
    (Dated: September 30, 2011)

  • Rebooting the Search for Dark Matter

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

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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…

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Dr. McDonald receives Order of Ontario

Dr. Arthur McDonald of Kingston, a respected physicist who led the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory scientific team confirming that neutrinos have mass. This changed the basic understanding of physics for these fundamental particles, a very significant scientific discovery.

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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.

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