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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-ph.IM2017

Application of the TPB Wavelength Shifter to the DEAP-3600 Spherical Acrylic Vessel Inner Surface

B. Broerman, M. G. Boulay, B. Cai +11

DEAP-3600 uses liquid argon contained in a spherical acrylic vessel as a target medium to perform a sensitive spin-independent dark matter search. Argon scintillates in the vacuum…

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.…

astro-ph.IM2016

Temperature dependence of alpha-induced scintillation in the 1,1,4,4-tetraphenyl-1,3-butadiene wavelength shifter

L. M. Veloce, M. Kuźniak, P. C. F. Di Stefano +7

Liquid noble based particle detectors often use the organic wavelength shifter 1,1,4,4- tetraphenyl-1,3-butadiene (TPB) which shifts UV scintillation light to the visible regime, f…

physics.ins-det2014

Improving Photoelectron Counting and Particle Identification in Scintillation Detectors with Bayesian Techniques

M. Akashi-Ronquest, P. -A. Amaudruz, M. Batygov +79

Many current and future dark matter and neutrino detectors are designed to measure scintillation light with a large array of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). The energy resolution and…

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…

astro-ph.HE2020

The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment

M. Agostini, M. Böhmer, J. Bosma +33

The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE) is a new initiative with a vision towards constructing a multi-cubic kilometre neutrino telescope, to expand our observable window of…

physics.ins-det2019

Polyethylene naphthalate film as a wavelength shifter in liquid argon detectors

M. Kuźniak, B. Broerman, T. Pollmann +1

Liquid argon-based scintillation detectors are important for dark matter searches and neutrino physics. Argon scintillation light is in the vacuum ultraviolet region, making it har…

physics.ins-det2015

DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Search

DEAP Collaboration, P. -A. Amaudruz, M. Batygov +54

The DEAP-3600 experiment is located 2 km underground at SNOLAB, in Sudbury, Ontario. It is a single-phase detector that searches for dark matter particle interactions within a 1000…

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…

astro-ph.IM2014

Radon backgrounds in the DEAP-1 liquid-argon-based Dark Matter detector

P. -A. Amaudruz, M. Batygov, B. Beltran +49

The DEAP-1 \SI{7}{kg} single phase liquid argon scintillation detector was operated underground at SNOLAB in order to test the techniques and measure the backgrounds inherent to si…

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…

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…

astro-ph.IM2019

Photoluminescence response of acrylic (PMMA) and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) to ultraviolet light

G. R. Araujo, T. Pollmann, A. Ulrich

Some publications indicate that poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) exhibit low levels of photoluminesence (fluorescence and/or phosphorescence) whe…

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…

physics.ins-det2019

Temperature-dependent fluorescence emission spectra of acrylic (PMMA) and tetraphenyl butadiene (TPB) excited with UV light

J. M. Corning, G. R. Araujo, P. C. F. Di Stefano +3

Acrylic (poly(methyl methacrylate) or PMMA) is commonly used as a vessel to hold scintillating liquids in rare-event searches. Certain types of PMMA can fluoresce with a low effici…

hep-ex2026

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

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

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…

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…

physics.ins-det2017

DarkSide-20k: A 20 Tonne Two-Phase LAr TPC for Direct Dark Matter Detection at LNGS

C. E. Aalseth, F. Acerbi, P. Agnes +282

Building on the successful experience in operating the DarkSide-50 detector, the DarkSide Collaboration is going to construct DarkSide-20k, a direct WIMP search detector using a tw…

astro-ph.IM2012

Surface roughness interpretation of 730 kg days CRESST-II results

M. Kuźniak, M. G. Boulay, T. Pollmann

The analysis presented in the recent publication of the CRESST-II results finds a statistically significant excess of registered events over known background contributions in the a…

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…

astro-ph.IM2016

Measurement of the scintillation time spectra and pulse-shape discrimination of low-energy beta and nuclear recoils in liquid argon with DEAP-1

P. -A. Amaudruz, M. Batygov, B. Beltran +69

The DEAP-1 low-background liquid argon detector was used to measure scintillation pulse shapes of electron and nuclear recoil events and to demonstrate the feasibility of pulse-sha…

physics.ins-det2022

A Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics

J. Aalbers, K. Abe, V. Aerne +591

The nature of dark matter and properties of neutrinos are among the most pressing issues in contemporary particle physics. The dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber is the leadi…

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…

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…