DUNE as the Next-Generation Solar Neutrino Experiment

Abstract

We show that the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), with significant but feasible new efforts, has the potential to deliver world-leading results in solar neutrinos. With a 100 kton-year exposure, DUNE could detect $\gtrsim 10^5$ signal events above 5 MeV electron energy. Separate precision measurements of neutrino-mixing parameters and the ${}^8$B flux could be made using two detection channels (${\nu }_e+{}^{40}$Ar and ${\nu }_{e,\mu ,\tau }+e^{-}$) and the day-night effect ($>10\sigma$). New particle physics may be revealed through the comparison of solar neutrinos (with matter effects) and reactor neutrinos (without), which is discrepant by $\sim 2\sigma$ (and could become $5.6\sigma$). New astrophysics may be revealed through the most precise measurement of the ${}^8$B flux (to 2.5\%) and the first detection of the {\it hep} flux (to 11\%). {\it DUNE is required:} No other experiment, even proposed, has been shown capable of fully realizing these discovery opportunities.

arXiv commentMain text is 5 pages; total with references and Supplemental Material is 21 pages. Matches the version published on PRL. Attached a file with the event rate for each background component. In v3, the only change is to restore the paragraph breaks that disappeared from the Supplemental Material in v2

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