Status of DUNE, the US Flagship Neutrino Experiment

Speakers: Jelena Maricic (University of Hawaii, High Energy Physics Group)

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment currently under construction at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota, USA. DUNE will test the three-flavor neutrino paradigm in an unprecedented way, and will measure the neutrino mass ordering and the charge-parity (CP)-violating phase in the lepton sector. Its broad physics program also includes the detection of astrophysical neutrinos and the search for signatures indicating physics beyond the Standard Model. DUNE comprises a near detector complex at Fermilab and four 17-kton Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) far detector modules located 1.5 km underground at SURF, 1,300 km away. The detectors will be exposed to a wide-band neutrino beam generated by a 1.2 MW proton beam at Fermilab, with a planned upgrade to more than 2 MW. Two 770-ton LArTPCs (ProtoDUNEs) have been operated at CERN over the last few years as testbeds for the DUNE far detectors. DUNE will be the largest liquid argon detector ever built and is the flagship project of Fermi National Laboratory and the Department of Energy. DUNE is rapidly nearing completion, and this talk will present the current status, recent progress of DUNE and the ProtoDUNEs, the main physics goals, and the next steps towards the full operation of the experiment.

https://indico.phys.hawaii.edu/event/2773