LBNE and the Fermilab Liquid Argon Detector Programme

Lead Research Organisation: University of Oxford
Department Name: Oxford Physics

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Planned Impact

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Publications

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Abratenko P (2021) Cosmic Ray Background Rejection with Wire-Cell LArTPC Event Reconstruction in the MicroBooNE Detector in Physical Review Applied

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Abratenko P (2021) Convolutional neural network for multiple particle identification in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber in Physical Review D

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Abratenko P (2021) Search for a Higgs Portal Scalar Decaying to Electron-Positron Pairs in the MicroBooNE Detector. in Physical review letters

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Abud A (2022) Low exposure long-baseline neutrino oscillation sensitivity of the DUNE experiment in Physical Review D

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Abud AA (2022) Scintillation light detection in the 6-m drift-length ProtoDUNE Dual Phase liquid argon TPC. in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields

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Acciarri R (2017) Noise Characterization and Filtering in the MicroBooNE Liquid Argon TPC in Journal of Instrumentation

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Acciarri R (2017) Design and construction of the MicroBooNE detector in Journal of Instrumentation

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Acciarri R (2018) The Pandora multi-algorithm approach to automated pattern recognition of cosmic-ray muon and neutrino events in the MicroBooNE detector. in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields

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Acciarri R (2017) Measurement of cosmic-ray reconstruction efficiencies in the MicroBooNE LArTPC using a small external cosmic-ray counter in Journal of Instrumentation

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Acciarri R (2017) Michel electron reconstruction using cosmic-ray data from the MicroBooNE LArTPC in Journal of Instrumentation

 
Description This award is for research to pave the way to the development of the data acquisition system (DAQ) for a large liquid argon detector for a future neutrino oscillation experiment, the DUNE experiment. There were two major goals of this research, both of which have been met. (1) The work provided the data acquisition system for the '35ton prototype' liquid argon detector at Fermilab, that has now completed. (2) Providing the design of the DAQ (including costings) for the final DUNE experiment. The entire DUNE project has made very rapid progress and the work in this grant has led to a much more sophisticated prototype being proposed and built; ProtoDUNE at CERN. The team of people working on this prototype has enlarged considerably compared to the early prototype. The DAQ is at a very good stage of readiness and we expect to operate the prototype in the CERN particle beam in the summer of 2018. The design of the DAQ for the final DUNE experiment has also recently (Feb 2018) undergone a major iteration and is in the international search-for-funding phase.
Exploitation Route As the ProtoDUNE prototype starts operating, we will gain more insight into the next stage of the data acquisition design, including strategies for handling the immense amount of data expected from the final DUNE detector. This is essential for getting the full science potential from the DUNE experiment. Since the inception of this grant, teams from the Universities of Birmingham, Bristol and Edinburgh have joined the UK DAQ effort on DUNE (alongside teams from Universities of Oxford, Warwick and Sussex). Added March 2020: The DUNE experiment is continuing to grow internationally and in the UK (for the UK, the additions are Imperial, UCL, RHUL, Liverpool, Rutherford Lab).
Sectors Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Electronics,Other
URL http://www.dunescience.org/
 
Description DUNE: Pre-Construction Phase
Amount £351,764 (GBP)
Funding ID ST/R000271/1 
Organisation Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 10/2017 
End 09/2019
 
Title ProtoDUNE DAQ design review 
Description The ProtoDUNE experiment at CERN has specific needs with regard to Data Acquisition from the experiment. This institute has direct responsibility to providing the data acquisition for ProtoDUNE. It is also a bridging step to providing DAQ for the large DUNE experiment to which this grant relates. In November 2016, the project went through a thorough design review process for the ProtoDUNE DAQ involving both internal and external reviewers. The review covered requirements, interfaces, risks, technical obstacles and other items. It was passed, by which we mean that the reviewers found no flaws. They made several helpful comments and recommendations, which are being acted on. The DAQ design relies on a combination of standard and innovative methods which will pave the way for the methodology on the DUNE experiment and possibly other neutrino experiments. The DUNE experiment is a multi-mnational collaboration and the design methodology is being shared among all institutes. Once a functional version is operating (expected in 2018), the design methodology will be presented at conferences and made available in journal articles. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The DAQ design relies on a combination of standard and innovative methods which will pave the way for the methodology on the DUNE experiment and possibly other neutrino experiments. The DUNE experiment is a multi-mnational collaboration and the design methodology is being shared among all institutes. Once a functional version is operating (expected in 2018), the design methodology will be presented at conferences and made available in journal articles. 
 
Description Submission of grant request for Pre-Construction of DUNE experiment 
Organisation University of Cambridge
Department Department of Chemistry
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The DUNE experiment is a collaboration of over 150 institutions from 30 countries. The Oxford group is one of the groups that is hoping to provide the data acquisition system for this important experiment, which is one of the technologies required to operate it. The goal is to reduce the cost, while providing the maximum scope for physics discovery with the data that is collected. Oxford is providing management, software and hardware effort on this collaboration.
Collaborator Contribution Other partners are providing hardware, software, management and design effort to this collaboration.
Impact A grant has been written and submitted to the STFC for continuation funding. This will be reported in the grants and funding section of ResearchFish if successful.
Start Year 2014