Seminar by Sergio Bertolucci (U. of Bologna)

The DUNE experiment, currently under construction at Fermilab and at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), is one of the most ambitious projects ever conceived in neutrino physics. Its physics program ranges from the precision measurement of the neutrino oscillation parameters by means of a broadband beam, to the study of astroparticles through the use of natural sources, to the physics beyond the standard model. Such a wide program is made possible by the large mass of the detector (70 Kt), by its underground location at a depth of 1500 m, by the adoption of the liquid argon TPC technology, by the unprecedented power of the beam and by sophisticated Near Detectors, dedicated to reducing the systematic error. In this seminar we will discuss the performances of DUNE in the determination of neutrino mass ordering and in the study of CP violation in the leptonic sector, in the potential observation of supernova explosions, in proton decay and in the precision studies of atmospheric and solar neutrinos. We will also describe the state of the construction, the results of the prototypes and the future developments of the experiment.