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Reconstruction of atmospheric neutrinos in DUNE's horizontal-drift far-detector module
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09 Jan 2026
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This paper reports on the capabilities in reconstructing and identifying atmospheric neutrino interactions in one of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment's (DUNE) far detector modules, a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) with horizontal drift (FD-HD) of ionization electrons. The reconstruction is based upon the workflow developed for DUNE's long-baseline oscillation analysis, with some necessary machine-learning models' retraining and the addition of features relevant only to atmospheric neutrinos such as the neutrino direction reconstruction. Where relevant, the impact of the detection of the charged particles of the hadronic system is emphasized, and comparisons are carried out between the case when lepton-only information is considered in the reconstruction (as is the case for many neutrino oscillation experiments), versus when all particles identified in the LArTPC were included. Three neutrino direction reconstruction methods have been developed and studied for the atmospheric analyses: using lepton-only information, using all reconstructed particles, and using only correlations from reconstructed hits. The results indicate that incorporating more than just lepton information significantly improves the resolution of both neutrino direction and energy reconstruction. The angle reconstruction algorithms developed in this work result in no strong dependence on particle direction for reconstruction efficiencies or neutrino flavor identification. This comprehensive review of the reconstruction of atmospheric neutrinos in DUNE's FD-HD LArTPC is the first step towards developing a first neutrino oscillation sensitivity analysis, which will ready DUNE for its first measurements.
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- Reconstruction of atmospheric neutrinos in DUNE's horizontal-drift far-detector module
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- DUNE CollaborationS AbbasluF. Abd AlrahmanA. Abed AbudR AcciarriL. P AccorsiM. A AceroM. R AdamesG AdamovM AdamowskiC AdrianoF AkbarF AlemannoN. S AlexK AllisonM AlrashedA AltonR AlvarezT AlvesA AmanH AmarP AmedoJ AndersonD. A AndradeC AndreopoulosM AndreottiM. P AndrewsF AndrianalaS AndringaF AnjarazafyS AnsarifardD AnticM AntoniassiA Aranda-FernandezT Araya-SantanderL ArellanoE. Arrieta DiazM. A ArroyaveM ArteroponsJ AsaadiM AscencioA AshkenaziD AsnerL AsquithE AtkinD AugusteA AurisanoV AushevD AutieroD. Ávila GómezM. B AzamF AzfarA BackJ. J BackY BaeI BagaturiaL BagbyD BaigarashevS BalasubramanianA BalboniP BaldiW BaldiniJ BaldonedoB BallerB BambahF BaraoD BarbuG BarenboimP. Barham AlzásG. J BarkerW BarkhouseG BarrA BarrosN BarrosD BarrowJ. L BarrowA Basharina-FreshvilleA BashyalV BasqueM BassaniD BasuC BatchelorL Bathe-PetersJ. B. R BattatF BattistiJ BautistaF BayJ. L. L. Bazo AlbaJ. 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