Seminars

ProtoDUNE Measurements for DUNE

Name: ProtoDUNE Measurements for DUNE
Start: 2024-05-01T11:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-05-01T12:30:00+01:00
Location: R61 CR3 (RAL)

by Dr. Abbey Waldron (QMUL)

Wednesday 1 May 2024, 11:30 → 12:30 Europe/London

R61 CR3 (RAL)

Description

I will describe the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) and its prototype experiment at CERN: ProtoDUNE. ProtoDUNE is a smaller version of a DUNE far detector module that we use to improve our understanding of liquid argon physics in preparation for DUNE. In particular I will describe our measurement of electron-ion recombination in liquid argon using test beam data. This measurement constrains one of the largest systematics in our neutrino energy reconstruction and enables our search for a matter-antimatter asymmetry in neutrino oscillations.