Development of the photon detector system for DUNE Vertical Drift TPC

Abstract

The term DUNE stands for ”Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment”. The program will be carried out as an international, leading-edge, dual-site experiment for neutrino physics and proton decay studies, indeed, the main objective of this experiment is to study long-baseline neutrino oscillations (fig. 1.1)(experiments carried out over the past half century have revealed that neutrinos are found in three states, or flavors, and can transform from one flavor into another. These results indicate that each neutrino flavor state is a mixture of three different nonzero mass states). Moreover, this studies will help us discover more about why matter is more abundant than antimatter (the so called matter-antimatter asymmetry) and DUNE’s capability to collect and analyze neutrino signal from a supernova within the Milky Way would provide a rare opportunity to peer inside a newly formed neutron star and potentially witness the birth of a Black Hole.