Neutrino interaction physics and the DUNE near detector

Abstract

DUNE is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment that will take data in a wideband neutrino beam at Fermilab, starting in the latter half of the 2020s. The experiment is planning to build a very capable near detector to facilitate the high precision extraction of oscillation parameters. Part of the mission of the near detector is to acquire powerful data sets that can be used to constrain the fits used in the oscillation analyses and improve the neutrino interaction model. In this talk, the importance and the potential of a vibrant program of neutrino interaction physics using this detector is described. A few case studies that illustrate the power of the DUNE near detector for studying neutrino interaction physics are described.

Axionlike Particles at Future Neutrino Experiments: Closing the Cosmological Triangle

“…The main standard model background is from NC-π 0 production where final-state pion decays also to two photons. For the 7-year exposure, the DUNE Collaboration predicts ∼ 6 × 10 5 NC events in the detector [37], summing up the contributions from positive and negative horn polarity modes. Let us conservatively assume that all of those would contain a single pion.…”

Sensitivity of accelerator-based neutrino experiments to neutrino-dark matter interaction: Elko as a viable dark matter candidate

“…One can also use the ND to investigate non-oscillation or beyond standard model physics [12][13][14][15][16][17][18], which require a larger number of events than those occurring in the FD. In this scenario, we use the ND to derive constraints on the parameter space of the effective model describing elkos.…”