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Publications (49)

physics.ins-det2020

Construction of precision wire readout planes for the Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND)

R. Acciarri, C. Adams, C. Andreopoulos +192

The Short-Baseline Near Detector time projection chamber is unique in the design of its charge readout planes. These anode plane assemblies (APAs) have been fabricated and assemble…

physics.data-an2021

Cosmic Background Removal with Deep Neural Networks in SBND

SBND Collaboration, R. Acciarri, C. Adams +128

In liquid argon time projection chambers exposed to neutrino beams and running on or near surface levels, cosmic muons and other cosmic particles are incident on the detectors whil…

nucl-ex2026

First Measurement of -Ar and -Ar Total Inelastic Cross Sections in the Sub-GeV Energy Regime with ProtoDUNE-SP Data

DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, F. Abd Alrahman +1346

The ProtoDUNE-SP detector, a kiloton-scale prototype for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) far detector, is the largest liquid argon time projection chamber built to…

hep-ex2023

Identification and reconstruction of low-energy electrons in the ProtoDUNE-SP detector

DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1253

Measurements of electrons from interactions are crucial for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) neutrino oscillation program, as well as searches for physics bey…

physics.ins-det2024

The track-length extension fitting algorithm for energy measurement of interacting particles in liquid argon TPCs and its performance with ProtoDUNE-SP data

DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1366

This paper introduces a novel track-length extension fitting algorithm for measuring the kinetic energies of inelastically interacting particles in liquid argon time projection cha…

physics.ins-det2024

Scintillation Light in SBND: Simulation, Reconstruction, and Expected Performance of the Photon Detection System

SBND Collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. Acciarri +180

SBND is the near detector of the Short-Baseline Neutrino program at Fermilab. Its location near to the Booster Neutrino Beam source and relatively large mass will allow the study o…

physics.data-an2025

DUNE Software and Computing Research and Development

DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, R. Acciarri +1340

The international collaboration designing and constructing the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) has developed a two-phase s…

physics.ins-det2022

Scintillation light detection in the 6-m drift-length ProtoDUNE Dual Phase liquid argon TPC

DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1220

DUNE is a dual-site experiment for long-baseline neutrino oscillation studies, neutrino astrophysics and nucleon decay searches. ProtoDUNE Dual Phase (DP) is a 6x6x6m3 liquid argon…

physics.ins-det2026

Design of the DUNE horizontal drift far detector charge readout electronics and performance in ProtoDUNE-HD

DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, F. Abd Alrahman +1364

DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment) is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment currently under construction, whose far detectors will be the largest liquid argon ti…

hep-ex2026

Reconstruction of atmospheric neutrinos in DUNE's horizontal-drift far-detector module

DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, F. Abd Alrahman +1377

This paper reports on the capabilities in reconstructing and identifying atmospheric neutrino interactions in one of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment's (DUNE) far detector…

physics.ins-det2024

DUNE Phase II: Scientific Opportunities, Detector Concepts, Technological Solutions

DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1366

The international collaboration designing and constructing the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) has developed a two-phase s…

hep-ex2021

Searching for solar KDAR with DUNE

DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1174

The observation of 236 MeV muon neutrinos from kaon-decay-at-rest (KDAR) originating in the core of the Sun would provide a unique signature of dark matter annihilation. Since exce…

physics.ins-det2022

Separation of track- and shower-like energy deposits in ProtoDUNE-SP using a convolutional neural network

DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1221

Liquid argon time projection chamber detector technology provides high spatial and calorimetric resolutions on the charged particles traversing liquid argon. As a result, the techn…

hep-ex2022

Snowmass Neutrino Frontier: DUNE Physics Summary

DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1240

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment with a primary physics goal of observing neutrino and antineutrin…

physics.ins-det2026

Operation of a Modular 3D-Pixelated Liquid Argon Time-Projection Chamber in a Neutrino Beam

DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, A. Abed Abud +1318

The 2x2 Demonstrator, a prototype for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) liquid argon (LAr) Near Detector, was exposed to the Neutrinos from the Main Injector (NuMI) n…

hep-ex2026

Cryogenics and purification systems of the ICARUS T600 detector installation at Fermilab

F. Abd Alrahman, P. Abratenko, N. Abrego-Martinez +194

This paper describes the cryogenic and purification systems of the ICARUS T600 detector in its present implementation at the Fermi National Laboratory, Illinois, USA. The ICARUS T6…

hep-ex2024

Calibration and simulation of ionization signal and electronics noise in the ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber

ICARUS collaboration, P. Abratenko, N. Abrego-Martinez +178

The ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detector has been taking physics data since 2022 as part of the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) Program. This paper…

physics.ins-det2021

Design, construction and operation of the ProtoDUNE-SP Liquid Argon TPC

DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1175

The ProtoDUNE-SP detector is a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) that was constructed and operated in the CERN North Area at the end of the H4 beamline. Th…

physics.ins-det2025

Spatial and Temporal Evaluations of the Liquid Argon Purity in ProtoDUNE-SP

DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, A. Abed Abud +1320

Liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) rely on highly pure argon to ensure that ionization electrons produced by charged particles reach readout arrays. ProtoDUNE Single-P…

physics.ins-det2001

The NIF Integrated Timing System - Design and Performance

R. A. Lerche, G. W. Coutts, L. J. Lagin +7

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) will contain the world's most powerful laser. NIF requires more than 1500 precisely timed trigger pulses to control the timing of laser and dia…

hep-ex2025

Supernova Pointing Capabilities of DUNE

DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1360

The determination of the direction of a stellar core collapse via its neutrino emission is crucial for the identification of the progenitor for a multimessenger follow-up. A highly…

hep-ex2023

Impact of cross-section uncertainties on supernova neutrino spectral parameter fitting in the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1313

A primary goal of the upcoming Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is to measure the MeV neutrinos produced by a Galactic core-collapse supernova if one s…

hep-ex2021

Low exposure long-baseline neutrino oscillation sensitivity of the DUNE experiment

DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1151

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will produce world-leading neutrino oscillation measurements over the lifetime of the experiment. In this work, we explore DUNE's se…

astro-ph2005

Merging Galaxies in Goods-s: First Extragalactic Results from Keck Laser Adaptive Optics

J. Melbourne, S. A. Wright, M. Barczys +15

The Center for Adaptive Optics Treasury Survey (CATS) aims to combine deep HST images in the optical with deep Keck adaptive optics (AO) data in the near-infrared (NIR) to study di…

hep-ex2025

Operation of the Trigger System for the ICARUS Detector at Fermilab

ICARUS collaboration, F. Abd Alrahman, P. Abratenko +186

The ICARUS liquid argon TPC detector is taking data on the Booster (BNB) and Main Injector (NuMI) Neutrino beam lines at Fermilab with a trigger system based on the scintillation l…

physics.ins-det2025

The DUNE Phase II Detectors

DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, R. Acciarri +1340

The international collaboration designing and constructing the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) has developed a two-phase s…

astro-ph2003

The First Measurement of Spectral Lines in a Short-Period Star Bound to the Galaxy's Central Black Hole: A Paradox of Youth

A. M. Ghez, G. Duchene, K. Matthews +11

We have obtained the first detection of spectral absorption lines in one of the high-velocity stars in the vicinity of the Galaxy's central supermassive black hole. Both Brgamma (2…

physics.ins-det2026

Operation and performance of ProtoDUNE Dual Phase liquid argon time projection chamber

DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, F. Abd Alrahman +1360

ProtoDUNE-DP was the largest ever built Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) operating in Dual-Phase (DP) mode, with a liquid target and charge read-out placed in the gas.…

hep-ex2025

Towards mono-energetic virtual beam cross-section measurements: A feasibility study of -Ar interaction analysis with DUNE-PRISM

DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, A. Abed Abud +1321

Neutrino-nucleus cross-section measurements are critical for future neutrino oscillation analyses. However, our models to describe them require further refinement, and a deeper und…

nlin.CD2011

Search for conformal invariance in compressible two-dimensional turbulence

S. Stefanus, J. Larkin, W. I. Goldburg

We present a search for conformal invariance in vorticity isolines of two-dimensional compressible turbulence. The vorticity is measured by tracking the motion of particles that fl…

physics.ins-det2021

Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Near Detector Conceptual Design Report

A. Abed Abud, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +1059

This report describes the conceptual design of the DUNE near detector

hep-ex2023

Reconstruction of interactions in the ProtoDUNE-SP detector with Pandora

DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1220

The Pandora Software Development Kit and algorithm libraries provide pattern-recognition logic essential to the reconstruction of particle interactions in liquid argon time project…

hep-ex2026

Measurement of muon (anti-)neutrino charged-current quasielastic-like cross section using off-axis NuMI beam at ICARUS

ICARUS Collaboration, F. Abd Alrahman, P. Abratenko +176

This paper presents the first neutrino cross-section measurement from the ICARUS detector at Fermilab, using NuMI (Neutrinos at the Main Injector) beam data collected from two beam…

hep-ex2025

The DUNE Science Program

DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, R. Acciarri +1340

The international collaboration designing and constructing the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) has developed a two-phase s…

hep-ex2026

Sampling Off-Axis Neutrino Fluxes with the Short-Baseline Near Detector

P. Abratenko, R. Acciarri, C. Adams +199

The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND), the near detector in the Short-Baseline Neutrino Program at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is located just 110 m from the Booster N…

hep-ex2023

The DUNE Far Detector Vertical Drift Technology, Technical Design Report

DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1324

DUNE is an international experiment dedicated to addressing some of the questions at the forefront of particle physics and astrophysics, including the mystifying preponderance of m…

hep-ex2025

Measurement of Exclusive --argon Interactions Using ProtoDUNE-SP

DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, A. Abed Abud +1323

We present the measurement of --argon inelastic cross sections using the ProtoDUNE Single-Phase liquid argon time projection chamber in the incident kinetic energy r…

hep-ex2025

Neutrino Interaction Vertex Reconstruction in DUNE with Pandora Deep Learning

DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, R. Acciarri +1331

The Pandora Software Development Kit and algorithm libraries perform reconstruction of neutrino interactions in liquid argon time projection chamber detectors. Pandora is the prima…

physics.acc-ph2025

European Contributions to Fermilab Accelerator Upgrades and Facilities for the DUNE Experiment

DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, R. Acciarri +1340

The Proton Improvement Plan (PIP-II) to the FNAL accelerator chain and the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) will provide the world's most intense neutrino beam to the Deep Un…

astro-ph2002

Adaptive Optics Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Sgr A* Cluster

S. Gezari, A. M. Ghez, E. E. Becklin +3

We present K-band ~ 2600 spectroscopy of five stars (K ~ 14 - 16 mag) within 0.''5 of Sgr A*, the radio source associated with the compact massive object suspected to be…

hep-ex2024

First Measurement of the Total Inelastic Cross-Section of Positively-Charged Kaons on Argon at Energies Between 5.0 and 7.5 GeV

DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1360

ProtoDUNE Single-Phase (ProtoDUNE-SP) is a 770-ton liquid argon time projection chamber that operated in a hadron test beam at the CERN Neutrino Platform in 2018. We present a meas…

hep-ex2026

A Bayesian approach to the long-baseline neutrino oscillation sensitivity of DUNE

DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, F. Abd Alrahman +1278

The sensitivity of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) to neutrino oscillation is evaluated using a Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approach. This analysis use…

hep-ex2025

Identification of low-energy kaons in the ProtoDUNE-SP detector

DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, F. Abd Alrahman +1343

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation neutrino experiment with a rich physics program that includes searches for the hypothetical phenomenon of proto…

hep-ex2025

Search for a Hidden Sector Scalar from Kaon Decay in the Di-Muon Final State at ICARUS

ICARUS Collaboration, F. Abd Alrahman, P. Abratenko +191

We present a search for long-lived particles (LLPs) produced from kaon decay that decay to two muons inside the ICARUS neutrino detector. This channel would be a signal of hidden s…

physics.ins-det2024

Doping Liquid Argon with Xenon in ProtoDUNE Single-Phase: Effects on Scintillation Light

DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1317

Doping of liquid argon TPCs (LArTPCs) with a small concentration of xenon is a technique for light-shifting and facilitates the detection of the liquid argon scintillation light. I…

physics.ins-det2024

Angular dependent measurement of electron-ion recombination in liquid argon for ionization calorimetry in the ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber

ICARUS collaboration, P. Abratenko, N. Abrego-Martinez +178

This paper reports on a measurement of electron-ion recombination in liquid argon in the ICARUS liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC). A clear dependence of recombination o…

physics.ins-det2024

Performance of a modular ton-scale pixel-readout liquid argon time projection chamber

DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1360

The Module-0 Demonstrator is a single-phase 600 kg liquid argon time projection chamber operated as a prototype for the DUNE liquid argon near detector. Based on the ArgonCube desi…

physics.comp-ph2023

Highly-parallelized simulation of a pixelated LArTPC on a GPU

DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1300

The rapid development of general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) is allowing the implementation of highly-parallelized Monte Carlo simulation chains for part…

hep-ex2022

A Gaseous Argon-Based Near Detector to Enhance the Physics Capabilities of DUNE

A. Abed Abud, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +1239

This document presents the concept and physics case for a magnetized gaseous argon-based detector system (ND-GAr) for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Near Detector.…