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Point Person: Dave Elofson

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a flagship international neutrino experiment consisting of a set of two liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detectors placed underground in a beam of neutrinos produced by FermiLab's PIP-II proton accelerator. The closer detector (DUNE ND) is a high resolution, modular detector used to characterize the neutrino beam, while the further detector (DUNE FD) is a 40kton fiducial mass detector located 800 miles away (at an oscillation max) so it will have a special sensitivity to electron neutrinos. The TAMU Toback research group is working with UTA Asaadi research group and the QPix collaboration to study and compare the effectiveness of new charge pixel (QPix) technology with the originally proposed wire readout technology in DUNE FD through the creation and study of simulations. The goal is to determine the dynamic range of current that the circuit will experience through events as well as to determine other properties of the Q-Pix circuit to optomize the performance of the system.
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