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Design, construction and operation of the ProtoDUNE-SP Liquid Argon TPC

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The ProtoDUNE-SP detector is a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) that was constructed and operated in the CERN North Area at the end of the H4 beamline. This detector is a prototype for the first far detector module of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), which will be constructed at the Sandford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, South Dakota, U.S.A. The ProtoDUNE-SP detector incorporates full-size components as designed for DUNE and has an active volume of 7 × 6 × 7.2 m³. The H4 beam delivers incident particles with well-measured momenta and high-purity particle identification. ProtoDUNE-SP's successful operation between 2018 and 2020 demonstrates the effectiveness of the single-phase far detector design. This paper describes the design, construction, assembly and operation of the detector components.

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© 2022 CERN. Published by IOP Publishing Ltd on behalf of Sissa Medialab. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Received 9 August 2021; Accepted 6 October 2021; Published 4 January 2022. The ProtoDUNE-SP detector was constructed and operated on the CERN Neutrino Platform. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the CERN management, and the CERN EP, BE, TE, EN and IT Departments for NP04/ProtoDUNE-SP. This document was prepared by the DUNE collaboration using the resources of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), a U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, HEP User Facility. Fermilab is managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA), acting under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359. This work was supported by CNPq, FAPERJ, FAPEG and FAPESP, Brazil; CFI, IPP and NSERC, Canada; CERN; MŠMT, Czech Republic; ERDF, H2020-EU and MSCA, European Union; CNRS/IN2P3 and CEA, France; INFN, Italy; FCT, Portugal; NRF, South Korea; CAM, Fundación "La Caixa", Junta de Andalucía-FEDER, and MICINN, Spain; SERI and SNSF, Switzerland; TÜBITAK, Turkey; The Royal Society and UKRI/STFC, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility operated under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.

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Department of Energy (DOE)
DE-AC02-07CH11359
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ)
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Goiás (FAPEG)
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP)
Canada Foundation for Innovation
Institute of Particle Physics
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
CERN
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic
European Regional Development Fund
Marie Curie Fellowship
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3)
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA)
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
National Research Foundation of Korea
La Caixa Foundation
Junta de Andalucía
Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER)
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MCINN)
State Secretariat for Education and Research (Switzerland)
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu (TÜBİTAK)
Royal Society
UK Research and Innovation
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
NSF
Department of Energy (DOE)
DE-AC02-05CH11231

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