Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Sudbury_Neutrino_Observatory

GPTKB entity

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	neutrino
gptkbp:awarded	gptkb:2015_Nobel_Prize_in_Physics_(to_Arthur_B._McDonald_for_SNO_work)
gptkbp:closed	2006
gptkbp:collaboratesWith	gptkb:Canada gptkb:Germany gptkb:Portugal gptkb:United_Kingdom gptkb:United_States gptkb:United_States_Department_of_Energy
gptkbp:contains	1,000 tonnes of heavy water (D2O)
gptkbp:country	gptkb:Canada
gptkbp:fundedBy	gptkb:Government_of_India gptkb:Natural_Sciences_and_Engineering_Research_Council_of_Canada gptkb:US_Department_of_Energy gptkb:Northern_Ontario_Heritage_Fund gptkb:Science_and_Engineering_Research_Canada
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
gptkbp:locatedIn	gptkb:Vale's_Creighton_Mine
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Creighton_Mine,_Greater_Sudbury,_Ontario,_Canada
gptkbp:maximumDepth	about 2,100 meters underground
gptkbp:namedAfter	gptkb:Sudbury,_Ontario
gptkbp:notablePerson	gptkb:Arthur_B._McDonald gptkb:John_Simpson gptkb:Mark_Chen gptkb:Aksel_Hallin gptkb:Andrzej_B._Dziewonski gptkb:Doug_Hallman gptkb:George_Ewan gptkb:Jeffery_A._Harvey gptkb:Peter_Doe gptkb:R._G._H._Robertson gptkb:R._G._Hamish_Robertson gptkb:R._G._Stokstad gptkb:David_Sinclair
gptkbp:opened	1999
gptkbp:operatedBy	gptkb:SNO_Collaboration
gptkbp:purpose	detect solar neutrinos
gptkbp:scientificAchievement	demonstrated neutrino flavor change evidence for neutrino oscillations solved the solar neutrino problem
gptkbp:sensorType	heavy water Cherenkov detector
gptkbp:successor	gptkb:SNOLAB
gptkbp:website	https://www.snolab.ca/sno/
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Arthur_B._McDonald gptkb:neutrinos gptkb:solar_neutrino_problem
gptkbp:bfsLayer	5