About
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment currently under construction at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota, USA. DUNE will test the three-flavor neutrino paradigm in an unprecedented way, and will measure the neutrino mass ordering and the charge-parity (CP)-violating phase. Its broad physics program also includes the detection of astrophysical neutrinos and the search for signatures indicating physics beyond the Standard Model. DUNE comprises a near detector complex at Fermilab and four 17-kton Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) far detector modules located 1.5 km underground at SURF, 1,300 km away. The detectors will be exposed to a wide-band neutrino beam generated by a 1.2 MW proton beam at Fermilab, with a planned upgrade to more than 2 MW. Two 770-ton LArTPCs (ProtoDUNEs) have been operated at CERN over the last few years as testbeds for the DUNE far detectors. This talk will present the current status and recent progress of DUNE and the ProtoDUNEs, the main physics goals, and the next steps towards the full operation of the experiment.
Bio:
Inés Gil-Botella is an experimental particle physicist and research professor at CIEMAT in Madrid, specializing in neutrino physics. She was granted a CERN Summer Studentship in 1995 and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Valencia in 1999, working on the ATLAS hadronic calorimeter and supersymmetry searches with DELPHI at LEP. As a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, she led pioneering studies of supernova neutrino detection in liquid argon TPCs and contributed to the development of the ICARUS detector. Back in Spain since 2004, she founded the CIEMAT neutrino group and played a central role in the Double Chooz reactor experiment, coordinating the European analysis that achieved the first measurement of the theta13 mixing angle. Since 2013, she has focused on liquid argon detectors for the DUNE…
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- CERN
- Speaker
- Ines Gil Botella
- Year
- 2026
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Physics
- Source
- CERN
- Licence
- CERN, as CERN states it. CERN's terms
- Attribution
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