DUNE is a flagship next-generation long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. Currently under construction and due to turn on later this decade, DUNE will unravel many of the outstanding questions in neutrino physics including how neutrino masses are distributed and the size of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the lepton sector. These measurements are of fundamental importance for particle physics and cosmology. Comprising 40 kilo-tons of liquid argon situated deep underground, DUNE will also have a broader science programme including supernova detection and solar neutrino physics.
A key component of DUNE is the near detector which is a smaller, higher resolution, detector used to characterise the neutrino beam close to its source. Components of the near detector will be tested and characterised during the next four years. A PhD project on DUNE at UCL will be involved in developing and testing near-detector concepts, and/or exploring how to optimise the much larger far-detector for the full range of potential neutrino measurements.
The project will involve: