The DUNE Far Detector Interim Design Report Volume 1: Physics, Technology and Strategies

Abstract

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will be a world-class neutrino observatory and nucleon decay detector designed to answer fundamental questions about the nature of elementary particles and their role in the universe.

Tribimaximal mixing in the SU(5)×T13 texture

“…The first prediction (|J |) is consistent with the current PDG fit [5] and translates into δ CP = ±0.68π [1]. Although current expected error in global fit for δ CP is too wide, it is expected that next-generation experiments like DUNE [25] and Hyper-K [26] will measure this with 5-σ precision in the next decade.…”

“…A 3-σ rejection of the wrong mass ordering will be obtained in Hyper-K [26] after five years of data taking. DUNE will be able to measure the mass ordering with a significance above 5-σ after 7 years of data taking [25].…”

Three-Flavor Oscillations with Accelerator Neutrino Beams

“…Both DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande has been designed firstly to provide a superior sensitivity to CP violation and mass hierarchy compared with the previous generation of long-baseline experiments. DUNE, in particular, is able to establish mass ordering at 5σ in 2.5 years of data taking whatever is the value of δ [88]. Similarly, it can establish CP violation in the leptonic sector at 5 (3) σ level in 10 (13) years for 50% (75%) of all possible values of δ.…”

Far-forward neutrinos at the Large Hadron Collider

“…Since the discovery of oscillation properties of neutrinos, their fundamental roles in shaping the universe have become an important line of inquiry [1]. A high-luminosity neutrino program with a flux of neutrinos produced at an energy scale of few GeV is the focus of the large experimental neutrino physics community working on the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) [2][3][4]. With a proton beam energy of 80-120 GeV, pions are produced with the highest multiplicity in proton-nucleon interactions.…”