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SCHOOL of PHYSICS and ASTRONOMY The University of Edinburgh The King’s Buildings Edinburgh EH9 3JZ Scotland/UK Telephone: +44 (0)131 650 5235 Email: f.muheim@ed.ac.uk 21 st December 2016 To the Dune IB Chair: • Prof Robert, Wilson, Colorado State University, To the DUNE Collaboration Spokesperson: • Prof Mark Thomson, University of Cambridge. Dear Bob and Mark, The University of Edinburgh, UK would like to join the DUNE collaboration. This has been discussed with Mark Thomson and within the UK institutes, where we now participate in the plans for the next round of funding proposals. In accordance with §2.2 of the “Governance of the DUNE Collaboration” we submit this application letter to the DUNE Institutional Board (IB). List of faculty members applying to join: • Peter Clarke (Professor) • Franz Muheim (Professor) • Matt Needham (Lecturer, equivalent to tenured Assistant Professor) Franz Muheim will be the Institutional representative of the Edinburgh group. Summary of the group’s scientific interest and technical experience: The Edinburgh Particle Physics Experiment (PPE) group is in the process of creating an activity in neutrino physics and we have decided that we want to focus on long baseline oscillation experiments. All three faculty members have a strong track record on measuring CP violation in the quark sector in several experiments (LHCb, BaBar, NA48, CLEO and NA31). At this stage we are very keen to extend this to the neutrino sector. The group has a strong record on instrumentation and computing: Franz Muheim is an expert on photon detectors and played a major role in the construction of the Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors for LHCb, Matt Needham was project leader for the LHCb silicon tracker, Peter Clarke is deputy project leader for GridPP, the UK’s Distributed Computing for Data-Intensive Research. Professor Franz Muheim Head of Particle Physics Experiment Group

Summary of the proposed science and technical contributions to DUNE: Over the last two decades CP violation in neutrinos has increasingly come to the forefront of particle physics as a possible solution to the matter antimatter asymmetry (leptogenesis). With the DUNE experiment CP violation effects will become experimentally accessible. We have strong expertise in all aspects of data analysis and plan to contribute to sophisticated data fitting, physics object reconstruction, alignment and calibration. An important systematic uncertainty will be neutrino nucleon interactions and we plan to study this effect. The PPE group is interested in the R&D and construction of the DAQ of the DUNE experiments. We are discussing this within the UK DUNE groups and plan to contribute to the data handling, where several important decisions need to be made. The raw data rate of 1.5Tb/s for a DUNE detector is very large, thus we need to study and optimise the flow of the data from the top of the detector to the DAQ computing farms, which might be located at the surface. This includes the compression and zero suppression of data, the data flow, including trigger, control and protocols, and the network between detector and DAQ computing farms. This fits well with the group’s expertise in data storage, simulation and trigger on GridPP, ATLAS, LHCb and (Clarke). We (Muheim, Needham) also are currently working with LAPPDs, which have the potential to increase substantially the efficiency for detecting the scintillation light of liquid argon. Resources the group could contribute to DUNE: The Edinburgh group’s planned resources are: Academic: Clarke, Muheim, Needham, initially at 0.2 FTE/year, but it is planned that one of us could ramp up this up significantly over the next two years. Research associates: ~1.0 FTE/year for the first two years. Engineering/Technicians: ~0.3 FTE/year. Some of this effort is dependent on a successful outcome of the UK groups bid for DUNE pre-production to the funding agencies for the two years from Oct 2017 to Sept 2019. The longer term is less well defined and will depend on the UK funding made available for DUNE construction. However, the PPE group is currently heavily involved in the LHCb upgrade project, which will be installed at CERN in 2019/20. Thus around this time there is scope for a transfer of significant resources, e.g. a senior research fellow, engineering and technical support. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have further questions. Yours sincerely Franz Muheim, Peter Clarke, Matt Needham Head of Physics Experiment School of Physics and Astronomy University of Edinburgh Tel: + 44 (0)131 650 5235 Fax: + 44 (0)131 650 7189 Email: f.muheim@ed.ac.uk Professor Franz Muheim Head of Particle Physics Experiment Group

Curriculum Vitae –Peter Clarke 1. Personal details Name: Peter Eric Linstead Clarke DoB: 17-June 1958 Nationality: British 2. Present Appointment (since 2004) Professor of e-Science School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh 3. Previous appointments CERN Associate CERN, Geneva, Switzerland 2010-12 Director of the National eScience Centre, University of Edinburgh 2004-09 Head of the Particle Physics Research Group, University College London 2001-04 Professor University College London 2002-04 Reader University College London 2001-02 Lecturer University College London 1993-01 CERN Associate CERN, Geneva, Switzerland 1996-97 Lecturer Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK 1987-92 CERN Fellow CERN, Geneva, Switzerland 1985-87 Electronic Engineer State University of New York, USA 1980-81 4. Qualifications B.Sc Hons (1 st class ) Electronics Southampton University 1980 D.Phil Experimental Particle Physics University of Oxford 1985 5. Professional Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, (FRSE) Chartered Physicist, Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP) Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (FIET) 6. External Committees and other bodies. Member STFC Science Board 2014- Chair STFC Computing Advisory Panel 2006-2014 ICCER Enquiry (Independent Climate Change Email Review). Investigation of email 2009 release and allegations of scientific fraud at Univ. of East Anglia Climate Change Unit. Member of governing body of Global Grid Forum (international standards body) Director of Data Area Sector 2002-04 Member JISC JSR Research Committee 2004-07 Member JISC JCN Network Committee 2002-06 Member PPARC E-Science Steering Committee 2001-03 Member of UKERNA-JISC Review Committee following Follet Report Member of OST/EPSRC e-science GNT (Grid Networking Team) 2001-03 Member PPARC CNAP (Computing and Networking Advisory Panel) 1997-00 Chair PPARC PPNCG Committee (Particle Physics Network Coordinating Committee) 1997-05 Member PPARC PPESP Committee (Particle Physics Experiments Selection Panel) 1989-92 Secretary of Institute of Physics HEPP Committee 1992-95 Member of Institute of Physics HEPP Committee 1989-92 7. Grants/ awards Particle Phyics Rolling grant 2012-2015 [CoI] £2.6M Digital Research Network Grant 2012 [PI] £114k Particle Phyics Rolling grant 2009-20012 [CoI] £1.5M NRP: National eScience Centre Platform 2008-11 [PI] £492k Particle Phyics Rolling grant 2006-2009 [CoI] £1.18M eScience Institute [CoI] 2006-10 £2.5M eSTORM 2006-2008 [PI], £500k National eScience Centre 2006-08 [PI] , £450k GridPP + GridPP2 the UK Grid for Particle physics UCL component £610k [UCL PI] EGEE, EU Grid infrastructure project UCL component £350k [UCL PI] 1