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This is a talk given at Computers in High Energy Physics in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia in November 2019. It is partially intended to explain the context of DUNE Computing for computing specialists. The DUNE collaboration consists…
Images of resolved 5.9 keV electron tracks produced from $^{55}$Fe X-ray interactions are presented for the first time using an optical readout time projection chamber (TPC). The corresponding energy spectra are also shown, with the FWHM…
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The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. Its primary goal is the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy and the CP-violating phase. The DUNE physics program…
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