Long-baseline neutrino oscillation physics potential of the DUNE experiment

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2020-10-22

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abi, babak
Acciarri, Roberto
Acero O, Mario A
Adamov, G
Adams, David
Adinolfi, M
Ahmad, Z
Szczerbinska, Barbara

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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 detector and a full simulation and parameterized analysis of the near detector. Detailed uncertain ties due to the flux prediction, neutrino interaction model, and detector effects are included. DUNE will resolve the neutrino mass ordering to a precision of 5σ, for all δCP values, after 2 years of running with the nominal detector design and beam configuration. It has the potential to observe charge-parity violation in the neutrino sector to a precision of 3σ (5σ) after an exposure of 5 (10) years, for 50% of all δCP values. It will also make precise measurements of other parameters governing long-baseline neutrino oscillation, and after an exposure of 15 years will achieve a similar sensitivity to sin2 2θ13 to current reactor experiments.

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DUNE, deep underground neutrino experiment, convolutional neural networks, neutrino oscillations

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This document was prepared by the DUNE col laboration using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Lab oratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. This work was supported by CNPq, FAPERJ, FAPEG and FAPESP, Brazil; CFI, IPP and NSERC, Canada; CERN; MŠMT, Czech Republic; ERDF, H2020-EU and MSCA, European Union; CNRS/IN2P3 and CEA, France; INFN, Italy; FCT, Portugal; NRF, South Korea; CAM, Fun dación “La Caixa” and MICINN, Spain; SERI and SNSF, Switzerland; TÜB˙ITAK, Turkey; The Royal Society and UKRI/STFC, UK; DOE and NSF, United States of America. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility operated under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.

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Abi, B., Acciarri, R., Acero, M.A. et al. Long-baseline neutrino oscillation physics potential of the DUNE experiment. Eur. Phys. J. C 80, 978 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-08456-z