Publications (68)
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…
Supernova Neutrino Burst Detection with the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
DUNE collaboration, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +967
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), a 40-kton underground liquid argon time projection chamber experiment, will be sensitive to the electron-neutrino flavor component…
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…
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…
Low-Energy Physics in Neutrino LArTPCs
D. Caratelli, W. Foreman, A. Friedland +285
In this white paper, we outline some of the scientific opportunities and challenges related to detection and reconstruction of low-energy (less than 100 MeV) signatures in liquid a…
Introduction to HOBIT, a b-Jet Identification Tagger at the CDF Experiment Optimized for Light Higgs Boson Searches
J. Freeman, T. Junk, M. Kirby +6
We present the development and validation of the Higgs Optimized b Identification Tagger (HOBIT), a multivariate b-jet identification algorithm optimized for Higgs boson searches a…
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…
Readout electronics for low occupancy High-Pressure Gas TPCs
N. Khan, Y. Hua, I. Xiotidis +36
HPgTPCs have benefits such as low energy threshold, magnetisability, and 4 acceptance, making them ideal for neutrino experiments such as DUNE. We present the design of an FPGA…
The DUNE Far Detector Interim Design Report, Volume 2: Single-Phase Module
DUNE Collaboration, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +1092
The DUNE IDR describes the proposed physics program and technical designs of the DUNE far detector modules in preparation for the full TDR to be published in 2019. It is intended a…
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…
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
Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), Far Detector Technical Design Report, Volume II: DUNE Physics
B. Abi, R. Acciarri, Mario A. Acero +958
The preponderance of matter over antimatter in the early universe, the dynamics of the supernovae that produced the heavy elements necessary for life, and whether protons eventuall…
Design and performance of a 35-ton liquid argon time projection chamber as a prototype for future very large detectors
D. L. Adams, M. Baird, G. Barr +71
Liquid argon time projection chamber technology is an attractive choice for large neutrino detectors, as it provides a high-resolution active target and it is expected to be scalab…
Long-baseline neutrino oscillation physics potential of the DUNE experiment
DUNE Collaboration, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +966
The sensitivity of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) to neutrino oscillation is determined, based on a full simulation, reconstruction, and event selection of the far…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Summary of the Second Workshop on Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Research and Development in the United States
R. Acciarri, M. Adamowski, D. Artrip +41
The second workshop to discuss the development of liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) in the United States was held at Fermilab on July 8-9, 2014. The workshop was orga…
Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Research and Development in the United States
B. Baller, C. Bromberg, N. Buchanan +34
A workshop was held at Fermilab on March 20-21, 2013 to discuss the development of liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPC) in the United States. The workshop was organized u…
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…
Tevatron-for-LHC Report: Higgs
U. Aglietti, A. Belyaev, S. Berge +40
The search for Higgs bosons in both the standard model and its extensions is well under way at the Tevatron. As the integrated luminosity collected increases into the multiple inve…
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…
LArIAT: Liquid Argon In A Testbeam
J. Paley, D. Gastler, E. Kearns +64
Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) are ideal detectors for precision neutrino physics. These detectors, when located deep underground, can also be used for measurement…
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…
Experiment Simulation Configurations Used in DUNE CDR
T. Alion, J. J. Back, A. Bashyal +31
The LBNF/DUNE CDR describes the proposed physics program and experimental design at the conceptual design phase. Volume 2, entitled The Physics Program for DUNE at LBNF, outlines t…
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.…
Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report Volume 1: The LBNF and DUNE Projects
R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. Adamowski +795
This document presents the Conceptual Design Report (CDR) put forward by an international neutrino community to pursue the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment at the Long-Baseline…
The 2010 Interim Report of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment Collaboration Physics Working Groups
The LBNE Collaboration, T. Akiri, D. Allspach +329
In early 2010, the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) science collaboration initiated a study to investigate the physics potential of the experiment with a broad set of diffe…
Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report Volume 2: The Physics Program for DUNE at LBNF
DUNE Collaboration, R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero +796
The Physics Program for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at the Fermilab Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) is described.
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…
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…
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…
The DUNE Far Detector Interim Design Report Volume 1: Physics, Technology and Strategies
DUNE Collaboration, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +1092
The DUNE IDR describes the proposed physics program and technical designs of the DUNE Far Detector modules in preparation for the full TDR to be published in 2019. It is intended a…
The Short-Baseline Near Detector at Fermilab
SBND Collaboration, R. Acciarri, L. Aliaga-Soplin +195
SBND is a 112 ton liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detector located 110 meters from the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) target at Fermilab. Its main goals include…
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…
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…
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…
Production and installation of wavelength-shifting reflective light enhancers for the Short-Baseline Near Detector
R. Acciarri, L. Aliaga-Soplin, R. Alvarez-Garrote +194
We report on the design, production, and installation of a wavelength-shifting reflective system on the cathode of the Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND), a liquid argon time proj…
Experiment Simulation Configurations Approximating DUNE TDR
DUNE Collaboration, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +966
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment consisting of a high-power, broadband neutrino beam, a highly cap…
Neutrino interaction classification with a convolutional neural network in the DUNE far detector
DUNE Collaboration, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +968
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is a next-generation neutrino oscillation experiment that aims to measure -violation in the neutrino sector as part of a wider physics…
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…
Search for First-Generation Scalar Leptoquarks in collisions at =1.96 TeV
The CDF Collaboration, D. Acosta, J. Adelman +626
We report on a search for pair production of first-generation scalar leptoquarks () in collisions at =1.96 TeV using an integrated luminosity of 203 $pb^{…
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…
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…
The DUNE Far Detector Interim Design Report, Volume 3: Dual-Phase Module
DUNE Collaboration, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +1092
The DUNE IDR describes the proposed physics program and technical designs of the DUNE far detector modules in preparation for the full TDR to be published in 2019. It is intended a…
Prospects for Beyond the Standard Model Physics Searches at the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
DUNE Collaboration, B. Abi, R. Acciarri +970
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will be a powerful tool for a variety of physics topics. The high-intensity proton beams provide a large neutrino flux, sampled by a…
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.…
Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier
J. L. Hewett, H. Weerts, R. Brock +465
The Proceedings of the 2011 workshop on Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier. Science opportunities at the intensity frontier are identified and described in the areas of…
Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report, Volume 4 The DUNE Detectors at LBNF
R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. Adamowski +795
A description of the proposed detector(s) for DUNE at LBNF
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…
Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), Far Detector Technical Design Report, Volume III: DUNE Far Detector Technical Coordination
B. Abi, R. Acciarri, Mario A. Acero +958
The preponderance of matter over antimatter in the early universe, the dynamics of the supernovae that produced the heavy elements necessary for life, and whether protons eventuall…
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…
Photon detector system timing performance in the DUNE 35-ton prototype liquid argon time projection chamber
D. L. Adams, T. Alion, J. T. Anderson +75
The 35-ton prototype for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment far detector was a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber with an integrated photon detector system, al…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), Far Detector Technical Design Report, Volume IV: Far Detector Single-phase Technology
B. Abi, R. Acciarri, Mario A. Acero +958
The preponderance of matter over antimatter in the early universe, the dynamics of the supernovae that produced the heavy elements necessary for life, and whether protons eventuall…
First results on ProtoDUNE-SP liquid argon time projection chamber performance from a beam test at the CERN Neutrino Platform
DUNE Collaboration, B. Abi, A. Abed Abud +987
The ProtoDUNE-SP detector is a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber with an active volume of m. It is installed at the CERN Neutrino Plat…
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…
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…
Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), Far Detector Technical Design Report, Volume I: Introduction to DUNE
B. Abi, R. Acciarri, Mario A. Acero +958
The preponderance of matter over antimatter in the early universe, the dynamics of the supernovae that produced the heavy elements necessary for life, and whether protons eventuall…
The Single-Phase ProtoDUNE Technical Design Report
B. Abi, R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero +824
ProtoDUNE-SP is the single-phase DUNE Far Detector prototype that is under construction and will be operated at the CERN Neutrino Platform (NP) starting in 2018. ProtoDUNE-SP, a cr…
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…
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…
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…
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…