skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Overview and status of the Long Baseline Neutrino Facility cryogenics system

Journal Article · · IOP Conference Series. Materials Science and Engineering (Online)
 [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  2. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
+ Show Author Affiliations

The Long Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) serves to provide the infrastructure necessary to support the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), a growing international experiment to study neutrino science and proton decay. Situated at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), in Lead, SD, USA, DUNE will employ detectors located within massive cryostats filled with a total of 68,400 tons of ultrapure liquid argon. LBNF provides the cryogenic infrastructure necessary to supply and maintain that argon throughout the life of DUNE, as it enables the study of neutrinos from a new and improved beamline from Fermilab, as well as the dynamics of supernovae responsible for producing the heavy elements necessary for life and the possibility of proton decay. This contribution presents the modes of operation, layout, and main features of the cryogenic systems at LBNF. Those systems expected performance, functional requirements, and overall design status is also featured.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1487042
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-CONF-18-421-LBNF; oai:inspirehep.net:1707902
Journal Information:
IOP Conference Series. Materials Science and Engineering (Online), Vol. 502, Issue 1; ISSN 1757-899X
Publisher:
IOP PublishingCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (4)

A study of the factors affecting the electron lifetime in ultra-pure liquid argon
  • Bettini, A.; Braggiotti, A.; Casagrande, F.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 305, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-9002(91)90532-U
journal July 1991
A system to test the effect of materials on electron drift lifetime in liquid argon and the effect of water
  • Andrews, R.; Jaskierny, W.; Jöstlein, H.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 608, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2009.07.024
journal September 2009
Performance and Results of the LBNE 35 Ton Membrane Cryostat Prototype journal January 2015
The Liquid Argon Purity Demonstrator journal July 2014

Similar Records

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS