DUNE Fluxes

Below are DUNE neutrino fluxes in a variety of formats for several iterations of the LBNF beam design.

See Documentation for info on file formats and contact Laura Fields with questions or problems with broken links or file access issues.

Optimized 3-horn Design with 1.5 m target and fully engineered Horns (Sept 2021)

Key Features: 120 GeV protons (1.1e21 POT per year @ 1.2 MW), 1.5 m long cylindrical target, fully engineered Horn A, B and C

Optimized 3-Horn Design with 1.5 m target and Fully Engineered Horn A (Jan 2021)

Key Features: 120 GeV protons (1.1e21 POT per year @ 1.2 MW), 1.5 m long cylindrical target, fully engineered Horn A, partially engineered Horns B and C

  • TTrees available to DUNE collaborators on dungpvms (100,000 POT/file):
    • Neutrino Mode: /pnfs/dune/persistent/users/ljf26/fluxfiles/g4lbne/v3r5p6/QGSP_BERT/OptEngNov2017_150cmTargetCone_NoMod2/neutrino/flux
    • Antineutrino Mode: /pnfs/dune/persistent/users/ljf26/fluxfiles/g4lbne/v3r5p6/QGSP_BERT/OptEngNov2017_150cmTargetCone_NoMod2/antineutrino/flux
  • TTree tarballs publicly available on Dropbox (100,000 POT/file):

Optimized 3-Horn Design with 2.2 m target used for DUNE TDR (Nov 2017)

Key Features: 120 GeV protons (1.1e21 POT per year @ 1.2 MW), 2.2 m long cylindrical target, partially engineered horns

  • Flux Histograms and GLoBES flux files
  • TTrees (1 file = 100,000 POT) are available to DUNE collaborators from the dunegpvms at:
    • /pnfs/dune/persistent/users/ljf26/fluxfiles/g4lbne/v3r5p4/QGSP_BERT/OptimizedEngineeredNov2017/neutrino/flux/dk2nu/
    • /pnfs/dune/persistent/users/ljf26/fluxfiles/g4lbne/v3r5p4/QGSP_BERT/OptimizedEngineeredNov2017/antineutrino/flux/dk2nu/.

    Tarballs of the flux ntuples publicly available on DropBox:

  • Flux histograms at several off-axis locations.
  • Ntuples for alignment/focusing systematics.

Tau Optimized (Jan 2021)

Key Features: 120 GeV protons (1.1e21 POT per year @ 1.2 MW), 1 m NuMI fin-style target, NuMI-style horns

  • TauOptimized (120 GeV / 1.1e21 POT per year / 1 m NuMI target)
  • Flux histograms at several off-axis locations are also available.
  • Ntuples on Box.com
  • ntuples on dunegpvms: /pnfs/dune/persistent/users/ljf26/fluxfiles/g4lbne/v3r5p7/QGSP_BERT/TauOptimized/neutrino/flux/dk2nu/