A Letter Expressing Interest in Staging an Experiment at SNOLAB Involving Filling SNO with Liquid Scintillator Plus Double Beta Decay Candidate Isotopes
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(a group within the SNO collaboration studying this option for the future use of SNO, on behalf of the whole collaboration. This proposal has not been officially approved by the SNO collaboration as the defined future configuration for SNO and, if pursued, would undoubtedly involve the establishment of a new collaboration with additional participants as well as a subset of the members of the present SNO collaboration.)
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