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Neutrinos Make Their Mark in the North Hall

One of the conclusions from the ESPPU 2013 process was that CERN should actively engage in the global accelerator-based neutrino program. As a result, CERN became involved in various initiatives, including the DUNE project, and took a leading role…

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DUNE prototype activities at the Neutrino Platform

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), now under construction, is a long baseline neutrino experiment with a near detector at Fermilab and far detector at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota to observe neutrinos…

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Data acquisition challenges for the ProtoDUNE-SP experiment at CERN

The ProtoDUNE Single-Phase (SP) experiment at the Neutrino Platform at CERN (read more) is taking data after about two years of construction and commissioning. Its primary goal is to validate the design principles, construction procedures, detector…

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