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Abstract: Neutrinos provide a promising window to probe a wide range of fundamental physics. Neutrino related discoveries in the last two decades indicate that the answer to the most sought after question of why we live in a matter-dominated universe may be within reach. Although more than a trillion of neutrinos pass unnoticed through our bodies every second, they still remain largely mysterious. These ghostly little particles are notoriously difficult to detect given how rarely they interact with matter and require building immense and exquisitely sensitive detectors. The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment at Fermilab and South Dakota with primary goals of resolving the neutrino mass ordering and measuring the charge-parity violating phase, the indicator of a possible explanation for our matter dominated universe. DUNE will use the promising liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) technology as it presents neutrino interactions with unprecedented detail. However, the path to DUNE is very challenging as it will be the biggest, most intense neutrino experiment ever to be built. After briefly reviewing the current state of neutrino physics and open questions, this talk will describe the DUNE experiment along with the rich physics that it offers and highlight some areas where new collaborations are being sought.
Bios:
SOWJANYA GOLLAPINNI
Senior Scientist, Physics Division, LANL
Dr. Sowjanya Gollapinni is a senior scientist and Neutrino Group Leader in the Physics Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). She earned her Ph.D. from Wayne State University followed by a postdoctoral position at Kansas State University. Before moving to LANL in 2019, she was a Faculty in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Gollapinni is an experimental particle physicist, and her current research focuses on studying tiny particles called “neutrinos” and using them as probes to answer fundamental questions in physics. She is a member of several international collaborations such as MicroBooNE, Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). She held several leadership roles across these collaborations including as the Technical Leader of the DUNE Calibration and Cryogenic Instrumentation Consortium, Deputy Coordinator for the DUNE Phase-II program and as the Collaboration Board Chair of MicroBooNE. She was recently elected as the Co-Spokesperson of DUNE. She is an Executive Board member of the American Physics Society’s Department of Particles and Fields (DPF) Coordinating Panel for Advanced Detectors (CPAD). She has been recognized with numerous awards including the prestigious DOE Early Career award and a Distinguished Performance Award at LANL.
SERGIO BERTOLUCCI
Senior Associate of INFN Bologna
Prof. Bertolucci has been working in the field of experimental Particle Physics at DESY in Hamburg, at Fermi National Laboratory in Chicago, at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF) of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and CERN. He has held key roles in the design, construction and physics exploitation of the CDF, KLOE, VIP, SBN and DUNE experiments including his current role as the Co-Spokesperson of DUNE. Among the most outstanding scientific achievements obtained by these experiments is the discovery of the top quark, the most precise determination of the quark mixing angle, the measurement of the hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment, the measurement of the proton-antiproton elastic, inelastic, diffractive and total cross-section at 1.8 TeV and the most sensitive upper limit for the violation of Pauli Exclusion Principle for electrons. He has developed innovative instrumentation, such as the CDF hadron calorimeter and the KLOE scintillating fibre electromagnetic calorimeter, which still holds cutting edge performances. He has also led the commissioning of the DAFNE accelerator, allowing it to reach record performances. He has been Director of Research and Scientific Computing at CERN from 2009 to 2015. During his mandate he was one of the key actors in the design and implementation of the strategy which resulted in the discovery of the Higgs particle in 2012. He is an APS fellow, EPS honorary member and Grand Officer of the Order of Merit, the second highest ranking order of knighthood awarded by the Italian Republic among numerous other honors and fellowships.