Abstract
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will be a powerful tool for a variety of physics topics. The high-intensity proton beams provide a large neutrino flux, sampled by a near detector system consisting of a combination of capable precision detectors, and by the massive far detector system located deep underground. This configuration sets up DUNE as a machine for discovery, as it enables opportunities not only to perform precision neutrino measurements that may uncover deviations from the present three-flavor mixing paradigm, but also to discover new particles and unveil new interactions and symmetries beyond those predicted in the Standard Model (SM). Of the many potential beyond the Standard Model (BSM) topics DUNE will probe, this paper presents a selection of studies quantifying DUNE’s sensitivities to sterile neutrino mixing, heavy neutral leptons, non-standard interactions, CPT symmetry violation, Lorentz invariance violation, neutrino trident production, dark matter from both beam induced and cosmogenic sources, baryon number violation, and other new physics topics that complement those at high-energy colliders and significantly extend the present reach.
Highlights
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation, long-baseline (LBL) neutrino oscillation experiment, designed to be sensitive to νμ to νe oscillation
The experiment consists of a high-power, broadband neutrino beam, a powerful precision near detector (ND) complex located at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, in Batavia, Illinois, USA, and a massive liquid argon time-projection chamber (LArTPC) far detector (FD) located at the 4850 ft level of Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), in Lead, South Dakota, USA
Rich physics topics that profoundly expand those probed in the past neutrino experiments, this paper reports a selection of studies of DUNE’s sensitivity to a variety of beyond the Standard Model (BSM) particles and effects, initially presented in the physics volume of the DUNE Technical Design Report (TDR) [1] recently made available
Summary
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation, long-baseline (LBL) neutrino oscillation experiment, designed to be sensitive to νμ to νe oscillation. Owing to the high-power proton beam facility, the ND consisting of precision detectors capable of off-axis data taking and the massive FD, DUNE provides enormous opportunities to probe phenomena beyond the SM traditionally difficult to reach in neutrino experiments Of such vast, rich physics topics that profoundly expand those probed in the past neutrino experiments, this paper reports a selection of studies of DUNE’s sensitivity to a variety of BSM particles and effects, initially presented in the physics volume of the DUNE Technical Design Report (TDR) [1] recently made available. 10 lists some other possible avenues for BSM physics searches These studies reveal that DUNE can probe a rich and diverse BSM phenomenology at the discovery level, as in the case of searches for dark matter created in the high-power proton beam interactions and from cosmogenic sources, or by significantly improving existing constraints, as in the cases of sterile neutrino mixing, non-standard neutrino interactions, CPT violation, new physics enhancing neutrino trident production, and nucleon decay. 7 m wide, 3 m high, 5 m long 6 m wide, 2 m high, 4 m long 147 ton 67.2 ton 574 m
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