The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a leading-edge, international experiment for neutrino science that will start data-taking in the early '30s.
DUNE will consist of two neutrino detectors placed in the world's most intense neutrino beam, the long baseline neutrino facility (LBNF). A complex of detectors will record particle interactions near the source of the beam, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.
These detectors (ND) will study neutrino beam features near the production site using the combination of three different apparatuses both on and off axis. A second, much larger, detector complex will be installed more than a kilometer underground at the Sanford Underground Research Laboratory in Lead, South Dakota - 1,300 kilometers downstream of the source.
These detectors, known as "far detectors" (FD), are 17kton liquid Argon time-projection chambers and will enable a deep study of the neutrino oscillation, opening the possibility of groundbreaking discoveries in the field of particle physics.
The primary science objectives of DUNE are in fact the test CP violation in the lepton sector, which explores why the universe is made of matter, the determination of the ordering of the neutrino masses, the studies of supernovae looking at neutrino signals, and the search for proton decay, which has never been observed.
The importance of these goals has led to proposals for competing projects in other countries such as HK experiment in Japan, scheduled to begin data-taking in the same decade of DUNE.
