Speaker
Description
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation long-baseline neutrino experiment designed to study neutrino oscillations with a high-intensity neutrino beam produced at the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF). The experiment will employ a high-precision near detector complex at Fermilab together with four large liquid argon time projection chambers located 1,300 km downstream at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. DUNE will make precision measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters, including searches for CP violation in the lepton sector and determination of the neutrino mass ordering. The experiment will also carry out a broad physics program that includes the detection of neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae, searches for nucleon decay, and studies of neutrino interactions.
This talk will provide an overview of the DUNE physics program and the current status of the experiment. It will summarize recent progress in detector construction, detector integration, software and reconstruction, and preparations for detector commissioning. The experiment's expected physics reach, the path toward first data, and the role of DUNE within the broader international neutrino physics landscape will also be discussed.