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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Nigel Smith (SNOLAB) will be visiting TRIUMF this week and will give a colloquium on Thursday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I have booked a (bring your own) lunch in the MOB board room from noon-1pm, so please join if you can.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Oliver<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#45454A;background:white">The SNOLAB Science Programme: cutting-edge science from a deep hole in the ground</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#45454A;background:#EEEEEE">SNOLAB is a deep underground research facility, hosted 2km beneath the surface of the Earth in a working mine at Creighton, near Sudbury, Ontario.
Initially the site of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, which unambiguously demonstrated flavour-change in neutrinos created in the fusion processes of the Sun, SNOLAB now hosts a multi-disciplinary programme. Why do we need to go to such great depths to probe
the Universe? Deep underground research facilities create ultra-quiet radiation environments through reduced cosmic ray induced backgrounds, and local shielding against ambient natural radioactivity. Such environments are required to address several of the
major questions in contemporary astro-particle and sub-atomic physics, such as the search for the Galactic dark matter, and studies of neutrino properties. In addition the capabilities and techniques developed at SNOLAB are finding application in additional
research streams such as genetics, nuclear treaty verification and deep subsurface life studies. This talk will provide an overview of the science programme at SNOLAB, will review detector systems used for these studies, and outline future plans for the facility.
(This presentation will be available as livestream. The link will be posted later.)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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