Long Baseline Neutrino Experiments and the enabling role of the CERN Neutrino Platform: DUNE and ProtoDUNE
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The current Long Baseline experiments, T2K and NOvA, are approaching the point of passing the baton to the next generation, Hyper-Kamiokande and DUNE under construction. Over the last ten years the CERN Neutrino Platform has enabled the European neutrino community to come together, grow, and enhance our participation and leadership in US and Japanese based experiments. Leveraging CERN infrastructure and expertise the ProtoDUNE prototypes underpinned the development and demonstration of DUNE Far Detector technologies. Together with the design and delivery of the Far Detector cryostats, CERN contributes crucially to the success of the experiment. The physics fountain of ProtoDUNE includes unique cross-section measurements, some already published and more to come from the huge data sample collected last summer, and has been extended spectacularly with the detection of neutrinos from the 400 GeV SPS protons hitting the T2 target, and data/MC studies demonstrating the feasibility of BSM searches already in 2025-26. I will present highlights of this activity and mention relevant future ambitions and plans of the European neutrino community.
Christos Touramanis is Professor of Experimental Particle Physics at the University of Liverpool. He obtained his BSc and PhD from the University of Thessaloniki. His main interest is matter-antimatter asymmetries and the role of discrete symmetries in nature. As student and CERN Fellow he did CP and CPT measurements at PS195/CPLEAR. He then joined BABAR (SLAC) where he participated in the discovery of CP Violation and the measurement of the Unitarity Triangle angles beta and alpha. He initiated the Liverpool neutrino group and delivered the T2K Near Detector electromagnetic calorimeter, managed the T2K-UK project, and served as Near Detector Analysis co-coordinator. He is a founding member of DUNE, led the construction of ProtoDUNE HD in 2016-18, and is currently coordinating on-site its second phase.
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