SNO Publicity Information
This page lists any information regarding publicity
for SNO. It is intended for both the public and to keep
SNO collaborators informed. Information includes construction
activities and milestones (public info), TV programmes,
videos, newpapers and magazines, news, conferences etc.
Please keep me up to date on any information
that should be on this page
(qusno@sno.phy.queensu.ca).
SNO Milestones
- May 2013 -- Release of combined 3-phase results
- June 2008 -- Release of NCD-phase results
- May 2007 -- D2O drained from acrylic vessel
- Nov 2006 -- End of datataking for 3rd phase
- Mar 2005 -- SNO's first results paper exceeds 1000 citations on SPIRES
- Feb 2005 -- Release of 391-day salt-phase results
- Feb 2004 -- Start of 3rd phase of data taking (with NCD detectors)
- Sept 2003 -- Release of salt flux results
- April 2002 -- Release of neutral current and day/night results
- June 2001 -- Release of first scientific results
- May 2001 -- Start of 2nd phase of data taking (salt fill)
- June 2000 -- SNO hosts the Neutrino-2000 meeting.
- June 2000 -- Technical article published in Nuclear
Instruments and Methods.
- Nov 1999 -- Production data taking begins
- May 1999 -- First neutrinos found
- Apr 1999 -- Water fill complete
- Jul 1998 -- All electronics channels on-line
- Apr 1998 -- Start of water fill
- Jan 1998 -- Photomultiplier support sphere and photomultiplier installation complete.
- Nov 1997 -- Acrylic vessel completed
- Jan 1997 -- Upper half of acylic vessel suspended on it's support ropes and lifted into place.
- Mar 1997 -- Completed first row below equator of the acrylic vessel.
- Oct 1995 -- Photomultiplier support upper hemisphere completed
- Aug 1995 -- Start of acrylic vessel assembly
- Nov 1994 -- Start of clean room assembly phase
- May 1993 -- End of cavity excavation
- Mar 1990 -- Start of cavity excavation
- Jan 1990 -- SNO funding announced
Photographs
For most up-to-date information on the topics below, please contact
D. Hallman at the SNO site
project office.
Newspapers, Magazines and Popular Journals
- National Post (April 25, 2007)
- Discovery Channel (May 3, 2002)
- Newsday (April 30, 2002)
- The New York Times (April 28, 2002)
- The Guardian UK (April 25, 2002)
- AIP Update News (April 24, 2002)
- Daily University Science News (April 23, 2002)
- National Post (April 22, 2002)
- Science Daily (April 22, 2002)
- BBC News (April 22, 2002)
- Global National (April 22, 2002)
- Sudbury Star (April 22, 2002)
- Science Now (April 22, 2002)
- Sky & Telescope (April 22, 2002)
- Newsday (April 22, 2002)
- LBL Science Beat News (April 22, 2002)
- Albuquerque Journal (April 21, 2002)
- Washington Post (April 21, 2002)
- Brookhaven News Release (April 20, 2002)
- Europhysics News (Vol 32 No. 5; Sept/Oct, 2001)
- CNN (June 19, 2001)
- SF Chronicle article (June 19, 2001)
- San Jose Mercury News (June 19, 2001)
- National Post (June 19, 2001)
- Newsday (June 19, 2001)
- Globe & Mail article (June 19, 2001)
- Science Now-AAAS member only (June 19, 2001)
- Physics Web (June 19, 2001)
- NY Times article (June 19, 2001)
- Washington Post (June 19, 2001)
- Philadelphia Inquirer (June 18, 2001)
- Space.com (June 18, 2001)
- BBC News (June 18, 2001)
- New York Times (June 18, 2001)
- CBC News (June 18, 2001)
- Eve Savory : CBC video:RealPlayer (June 18, 2001)
- The Star (June 17, 2001)
- The Sunday Times : UK (June 17, 2001)
- The Times (Feb 2, 1998)
- The New York Times (Jan 20th 1998).
- Inco Triangle (Feb 1996, April/May 1996, Feb 1997)
- Schott Glass Information Journal Flashes of Insight, 79 (January 1997)
- Quebec Science Le Canada Traque l'Infiniment Petit (November 1996)
- Cleveland Plain Dealer Atomic Answers Floating in a Bubble (November 1996)
- MacLean's Probing the Deep for Cosmic Clues (September 2nd, 1996)
- Sky & Telescope Unsolved Mysteries of the Sun (August 1996)
- Physics Today Solar Neutrino Experiments (July 1996)
- Canadian Architect Inner Limits (June 1996)
- Canadian Transportation Logistics Only in Canada! (June 1996)
- Time Magazine Ghost Hunters (April 1996)
- Sudbury Star - Feature plus other articles (April 17th, 1996)
- Toronto Star Mine May Yield Sun's Secrets (February 5th, 1996)
- New York Times Sunday Magazine Lighting up the Dark Side (January 7th, 1996)
- Mechanical Buyer Magazine Creating a Clean Room Lab (April 1995)
- Canadian Geographic Probing the Neutrino Universe (March 1994)
TV and Video
- Wired Science (October 24, 2007)
- NOVA The Ghost Particle (February 21, 2006)
- National Geographic SNO Special (November 26, 2002)
- ABC Nightline (June 18, 2001)
- @Discovery.ca Discovery Channel (April 18, 1997)
- CNN Science and Technology Review (January 25th, 1997)
- Science North Production SNO Progress Report (August 1996)
- MCTV 30 minute Showcase Feature (Early summer 1996)
- MCTV (N.Ont) Down to Earth SNO Feature (January 1996)
- CBC National Feature (January 1996)
- Science North Production SNO Update (November 1995)
- CBC NewsWorld (April 16th 1995)
Radio
Public Displays and Exhibitions
- Science North exhibition (Sudbury)
- Science North SNO Object Theatre
SNO Information and feedback
