Graduate Students
SNO+ Graduate Students have the opportunity to work on any aspect (or several aspects) of the SNO+ experiment alongside our collaborators in dozens of international institutions. Due to our sort-of proximity to Sudbury, Queen's SNO+ Grad Students have the advantage of "easy" access to the SNOLAB underground laboratory itself. A few of the aspects of SNO+ that our current graduate students are working on include:
- Neutrinoless double beta decay search in SNO+
- Reactor antineutrino oscillation measurements using SNO+
- Geoneutrino detection and measurements in SNO+
- Solar neutrino studies with SNO+
- Backgrounds and sensitivity analysis of SNO+ data
- Chemistry development and metal-loading in liquid scintillator
- Development, construction, and deployment of optical and radioactive calibration sources
- Design and construction of calibration hardware
- Commissioning and operation of underground chemical plants
- Data taking with the SNO+ detector
- Electronics development and repair
- Quality testing of liquid scintillator
- Materials science and material compatibility studies
- Purification of materials (e.g. scintillator, tellurium)
- Reconstruction of SNO+ data
- Data cleaning and data quality of SNO+ data
- Software development within the SNO+ analysis framework
- Machine learning, neural networks, and big data science with SNO+ data
We are currently seeking new graduate students. Contact any of our faculty for more information.
Undergraduate Researchers
SNO+ Undergraduate Researchers have the opportunity to work closely with our faculty, staff, and graduate students on a number of SNO+ hardware development and data analysis projects. We welcome any motivated undergraduate student in physics, engineering, or chemistry from any institution to work with us during the summer. We also welcome Queen's Undergraduate Students to work with us during the upcoming academic year.
We are currently seeking undergraduate researchers for the upcoming academic year. Contact Alex Wright at awright at queensu.ca for more information.
Life at Queen's
The physics student community at Queen's is tight-knit and makes the most of living in Kingston. From getting recognized by every bartender in Kingston to terrible Thursday karaoke, we help each other survive long drives to Sudbury, cold Canadian winters, and being the TA for a new Professor's "innovative" teaching style. If you are a prospective graduate student at Queen's University, you can look forward to a welcoming community with a bustling social life that contradicts the stereotypical grad school experience.
