Experiment Simulation Configurations Used in DUNE CDR

TL;DR

This paper provides detailed simulation configurations and GDML models for the DUNE experiment's far detector, facilitating community-based phenomenological studies of long-baseline neutrino oscillations.

Contribution

It offers publicly available simulation configurations and GDML models for the DUNE far detector, supporting broader research efforts.

Findings

Simulation configurations enable accurate neutrino oscillation studies

GDML models facilitate detector simulation and analysis

Community access promotes collaborative research in neutrino physics

Abstract

The LBNF/DUNE CDR describes the proposed physics program and experimental design at the conceptual design phase. Volume 2, entitled The Physics Program for DUNE at LBNF, outlines the scientific objectives and describes the physics studies that the DUNE collaboration will perform to address these objectives. The long-baseline physics sensitivity calculations presented in the DUNE CDR rely upon simulation of the neutrino beam line, simulation of neutrino interactions in the far detector, and a parameterized analysis of detector performance and systematic uncertainty. The purpose of this posting is to provide the results of these simulations to the community to facilitate phenomenological studies of long-baseline oscillation at LBNF/DUNE. Additionally, this posting includes GDML of the DUNE single-phase far detector for use in simulations. DUNE welcomes those interested in performing this work as members of the collaboration, but also recognizes the benefit of making these configurations readily available to the wider community.