Feb 18 – 26, 2021
Online
Europe/Rome timezone

Muon Energy reconstruction and neutrino astronomy with DUNE far detector.

Feb 24, 2021, 12:10 PM
5m
Room 1 (https://unipd.link/NeuTel-ParallelRoom1)

Room 1

https://unipd.link/NeuTel-ParallelRoom1

Parallel Flash talk Data Science and Detector R&D

Speaker

Mr Jaydip Singh (Lucknow University)

Description

The DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment) is a proposed long-baseline
neutrino oscillation experiment located in the United States. The main physics objectives of DUNE are to characterize neutrino oscillations, search for nucleon decay, and observe supernova neutrino bursts. The DUNE far detector will be located 4850' underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. It will house the world's largest liquid argon time projection chamber. The DUNE Far Detector can be used to detect high-energy muons that arise
from interactions of cosmogenic neutrinos and search for neutrinos originating in the decays of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). Selecting upward going muons reduces the background from cosmic-ray muons. The muon energy is estimated from the electromagnetic showers accompanying the muon, a technique that allows energy reconstruction up to a few hundreds of TeV. This work discusses the DUNE far detector's potential for neutrino astronomy.

Collaboration name DUNE collaboration

Primary author

Mr Jaydip Singh (Lucknow University)

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