Expression of Interest for a Full-Scale Detector Engineering Test and Test Beam Calibration of a Single-Phase LAr TPC

Following the recommendation of the U.S. Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel[1], Fermilab is working with the world neutrino community, CERN, and others to establish “a new international collaboration to design and execute a highly capable Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) hosted by the U.S.” This new collaboration, which is expected to be formed during the next several months, will combine, among others, groups that have been developing both single-phase and dual-phase LAr TPC detectors for long-baseline physics, mainly from the LBNE and LBNO collaborations respectively. This Expression of Interest regards a proposed full-scale prototype and beam test of the LBNE-design single-phase detector, utilizing the CERN Neutrino Platform[2] that was recently approved as part of the Medium-Term Plan (MTP) [3]. Once the LBNF collaboration is formed, it is expected that development of both single- and dual-phase detectors will come under the umbrella of the new collaboration.