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| DUNE Technical Design Report | |
|---|---|
| Title | DUNE Technical Design Report |
| Subject | Particle physics, neutrino oscillation, detector engineering |
| Authors | Fermilab, CERN, Brookhaven National Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory |
| Published | 2018–2020 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | ~1000 |
DUNE Technical Design Report
The DUNE Technical Design Report is the consolidated engineering and scientific blueprint for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment project led by Fermilab in coordination with international partners including CERN, Brookhaven National Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Imperial College London, and national laboratories and universities across the United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Canada, Japan, and South Korea. It articulates the experimental goals, detector architectures, beamline specifications, installation plans, calibration strategies, simulation frameworks, and projected sensitivities that underpin the long-baseline neutrino program situated between the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility at Fermilab and the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, drawing on precedents from experiments such as Super-Kamiokande, SNO, MINOS, T2K, NOvA, ICARUS, MicroBooNE, KamLAND, Daya Bay, and Double Chooz.
The introduction situates the project within the context of major milestones and institutions like CERN, Fermilab, Brookhaven National Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, University of Oxford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, Princeton University, University of Chicago, Columbia University, and historical initiatives including Super-Kamiokande, SNO, MINOS, T2K, NOvA, ICARUS, MicroBooNE, KamLAND, Daya Bay, Double Chooz, and LSND. It references international governance frameworks and formal agreements among agencies such as DOE partners and funding bodies, while summarizing scope, deliverables, and schedule baselines tied to facilities like the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility and Sanford Underground Research Facility.
This section defines primary goals: precision measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters including CP violation phase and mass ordering, proton decay searches, and supernova neutrino detection, connecting to scientific legacies like Pontecorvo-era concepts, analyses from Wolfenstein and Mikheyev–Smirnov frameworks, and experimental results from Super-Kamiokande, SNO, Daya Bay, T2K, NOvA, MINOS, KamLAND, LSND, and MiniBooNE. Requirements derive from sensitivities benchmarked against theoretical and observational contexts associated with institutions and projects such as CERN, Fermilab, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Imperial College London, University of Tokyo, University of Tokyo Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, Sezione INFN di Milano, INFN, KEK, Gran Sasso National Laboratory, SNOLAB, and European Research Council-funded collaborations.
Detailed designs present the single-phase and dual-phase liquid argon time projection chamber concepts, referencing detector technologies developed at ICARUS, MicroBooNE, ArgoNeuT, ProtoDUNE, and prototyping work at CERN Neutrino Platform. Subsystems are specified with contributions from Brookhaven National Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Fermilab, University of Oxford, Imperial College London, University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, Columbia University, University of Michigan, Sezione INFN di Padova, Sezione INFN di Pisa, Sezione INFN di Napoli, TRIUMF, SNOLAB, and industry partners. Components include cryostats and cryogenics influenced by EuroCryo-style engineering, time projection chambers tied to ICARUS innovations, high-voltage systems with heritage from ArgoNeuT, cold electronics evolved at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, photon detection systems, data acquisition architectures inspired by ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, and computing models aligned with CERN OpenLab, Open Science Grid, and national supercomputing centers.
Beamline specifications derive from upgrades to the Fermilab Main Injector, with neutrino beam design informed by operational experience at NuMI, BNL AGS studies, and input from accelerator laboratories including CERN, KEK, TRIUMF, and J-PARC. Near detector systems build on concepts from MINOS-ND, NOvA near detector, T2K ND280, SBND, and MicroBooNE instrumentation, incorporating magnetized spectrometers, fine-grained trackers, calorimetry, and liquid argon modules developed in collaboration with CERN Neutrino Platform, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fermilab, University of Oxford, University of Tokyo, Sezione INFN di Milano, TRIUMF, University of Toronto, and KEK teams.
The implementation plan sequences civil construction at Sanford Underground Research Facility, shaft and caverns engineering linked to mining practices at Homestake Mine, cryostat fabrication, detector module assembly influenced by ProtoDUNE schedules, and logistics coordinating international fabrication across CERN, Fermilab, Brookhaven National Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Sezione INFN, KEK, TRIUMF, SNOLAB, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Yale University, University of Chicago, and industrial partners. Project management matrices reference staging, risk mitigation, quality assurance, and review processes paralleling large-scale ventures like Large Hadron Collider construction, James Webb Space Telescope integration, and ITER coordination frameworks.
Calibration strategies leverage radioactive sources, laser systems, cosmic-ray muons, and test-beam data with provenance from CERN Neutrino Platform test stands, ProtoDUNE results, and calibration programs used by Super-Kamiokande, SNO, T2K, and NOvA. Commissioning timelines coordinate accelerator beam power ramp-up at Fermilab Main Injector with detector readiness and data acquisition commissioning practices modeled on ATLAS and CMS operations. Operational plans engage collaborations among Fermilab, CERN, Brookhaven National Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, national funding agencies including DOE and UKRI, and computing infrastructure such as Open Science Grid, CERN IT, NERSC, and national supercomputing facilities.
Performance projections use full-chain simulation frameworks incorporating neutrino flux predictions, cross-section models from GENIE and nuclear-model inputs influenced by studies at Jefferson Lab, J-PARC, CERN, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and theory efforts from groups at MIT, Princeton University, University of Chicago, University of California, Berkeley, Imperial College London, Sezione INFN, Institute for Nuclear Theory, Perimeter Institute, and Max Planck Institute for Physics. Systematic uncertainty budgets account for flux, cross-section, detector response, and reconstruction effects, with sensitivity studies benchmarked against results from T2K, NOvA, Daya Bay, MINOS, KamLAND, SNO, and proposals for sterile-neutrino searches inspired by LSND and MiniBooNE anomalies.
Category:Neutrino experiments