https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-08456-z
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Long-baseline neutrino oscillation physics potential of the DUNE experiment
DUNE Collaboration
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University of Amsterdam, 1098 XG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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University of Antananarivo, Antananarivo 101, Antananarivo, Madagascar
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Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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Argonne National Laboratory, 60439, Argonne, IL, USA
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University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA
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Universidad Nacional de Asunción, San Lorenzo, Paraguay
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University of Athens, 157 84, Zografou, GR, Greece
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Universidad del Atlántico, Atlántico, Colombia
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Banaras Hindu University, 221 005, Varanasi, India
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University of Basel, 4056, Basel, Switzerland
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University of Bern, 3012, Bern, Switzerland
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Beykent University, Istanbul, Turkey
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University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, Birmingham, UK
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Università del Bologna, 40127, Bologna, Italy
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Boston University, 02215, Boston, MA, USA
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University of Bristol, BS8 1TL, Bristol, UK
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Brookhaven National Laboratory, 11973, Upton, NY, USA
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University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
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Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, 22290-180, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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CEA/Saclay IRFU Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l’Univers, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
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CERN, The European Organization for Nuclear Research, 1211, Meyrin, Switzerland
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CIEMAT, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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Central University of South Bihar, 824236, Gaya, India
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University of California Berkeley, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA
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University of California Davis, 95616, Davis, CA, USA
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University of California Irvine, 92697, Irvine, CA, USA
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University of California Los Angeles, 90095, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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University of California Riverside, 92521, Riverside, CA, USA
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University of California Santa Barbara, 93106, Santa Barbara, California, USA
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California Institute of Technology, 91125, Pasadena, CA, USA
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University of Cambridge, CB3 0HE, Cambridge, UK
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil
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Università di Catania, 2 - 95131, Catania, Italy
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Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University, 180 00, Prague 8, Czech Republic
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University of Chicago, 60637, Chicago, IL, USA
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Chung-Ang University, 06974, Seoul, South Korea
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University of Cincinnati, 45221, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Cinvestav), Mexico City, Mexico
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Universidad de Colima, Colima, Mexico
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University of Colorado Boulder, 80309, Boulder, CO, USA
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Colorado State University, 80523, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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Columbia University, 10027, New York, NY, USA
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Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, 182 00, Prague 8, Czech Republic
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Czech Technical University, 115 19, Prague 1, Czech Republic
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Dakota State University, 57042, Madison, SD, USA
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University of Dallas, 75062-4736, Irving, TX, USA
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Laboratoire d’Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules, CNRS/IN2P3 and Université Savoie Mont Blanc, 74941, Annecy-le-Vieux, France
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Daresbury Laboratory, WA4 4AD, Cheshire, UK
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Drexel University, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Duke University, 27708, Durham, NC, USA
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Durham University, DH1 3LE, Durham, UK
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Universidad EIA, Antioquia, Colombia
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ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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University of Edinburgh, EH8 9YL, Edinburgh, UK
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Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa - FCUL, 1749-016, Lisboa, Portugal
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Universidade Federal de Alfenas, 37715-400, Poços de Caldas, MG, Brazil
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Universidade Federal de Goias, 74690-900, Goiania, GO, Brazil
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Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 13604-900, Araras, SP, Brazil
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Universidade Federal do ABC, 09210-580, Santo André, SP, Brazil
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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21941-901, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, 60510, Batavia, IL, USA
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University of Florida, 32611-8440, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Fluminense Federal University, 9 Icaraí, 24220-900, Niterói, RJ, Brazil
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Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italy
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Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy
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Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, L’Aquila, AQ, Italy
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University of Granada & CAFPE, 18002, Granada, Spain
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University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC-IN2P3, 38000, Grenoble, France
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Universidad de Guanajuato, C.P. 37000, Guanajuato, Mexico
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Harish-Chandra Research Institute, 211 019, Jhunsi, Allahabad, India
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Harvard University, 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA
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University of Hawaii, 96822, Honolulu, HI, USA
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University of Houston, 77204, Houston, TX, USA
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University of Hyderabad, 500 046, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, India
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Institut de Fìsica d’Altes Energies, Barcelona, Spain
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Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular, 46980, Valencia, Paterna, Spain
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Bologna, 40127, Bologna, BO, Italy
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Catania, 95123, Catania, Italy
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Genova, 16146, Genova, GE, Italy
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Lecce, 73100, Lecce, Italy
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 3-20126, Milan, Italy
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Milano, 20133, Milan, Italy
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Napoli, 80126, Naples, Italy
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Padova, 35131, Padua, Italy
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Pavia, 27100, Pavia, Italy
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, 95123, Catania, Italy
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Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 117312, Moscow, Russia
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Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, 69622, Villeurbanne, France
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Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Instituto Superior Técnico-IST, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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Idaho State University, ID 83209, Pocatello, USA
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Illinois Institute of Technology, 60616, Chicago, IL, USA
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Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, SW7 2BZ, London, UK
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Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, 781 039, Guwahati, India
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Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, 502285, Hyderabad, India
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Indiana University, 47405, Bloomington, IN, USA
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Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima 25, Peru
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University of Iowa, 52242, Iowa City, IA, USA
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Iowa State University, 50011, Ames, IA, USA
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Iwate University, 020-8551, Morioka, Iwate, Japan
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University of Jammu, 180006, Jammu, India
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Jawaharlal Nehru University, 110067, New Delhi, India
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Jeonbuk National University, 54896, Jeonrabuk-do, South Korea
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University of Jyvaskyla, 40014, Jyvaskyla, Finland
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High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), 305-0801, Ibaraki, Japan
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Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, 34141, Daejeon, South Korea
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K L University, 522502, Vaddeswaram, Andhra Pradesh, India
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Kansas State University, 66506, Manhattan, KS, USA
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Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, 277-8583, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
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National Institute of Technology, 737-8506, Kure College, Hiroshima, Japan
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Kyiv National University, 01601, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, 1649-003, Lisboa, Portugal
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Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, 3004-516, Coimbra, Portugal
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Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire, 91440, Orsay, France
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Lancaster University, LA1 4YB, Lancaster, UK
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA
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University of Liverpool, L69 7ZE, Liverpool, UK
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Los Alamos National Laboratory, 87545, Los Alamos, NM, USA
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Louisiana State University, 70803, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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University of Lucknow, 226007, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Madrid Autonoma University and IFT UAM/CSIC, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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University of Manchester, M13 9PL, Manchester, UK
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA
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University of Michigan, 48109, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Michigan State University, 48824, East Lansing, MI, USA
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Università del Milano-Bicocca, 20126, Milan, Italy
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Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133, Milan, Italy
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University of Minnesota Duluth, 55812, Duluth, MN, USA
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University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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University of Mississippi, 38677, University, MS, USA
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University of New Mexico, 87131, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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H. Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
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Nikhef National Institute of Subatomic Physics, 1098 XG, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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University of North Dakota, 58202-8357, Grand Forks, ND, USA
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Northern Illinois University, 60115, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
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Northwestern University, 60208, Evanston, Il, USA
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University of Notre Dame, 46556, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA
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Oregon State University, 97331, Corvallis, OR, USA
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University of Oxford, OX1 3RH, Oxford, UK
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 99352, Richland, WA, USA
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Universtà degli Studi di Padova, 35131, Padua, Italy
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Université de Paris, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie, 75006, Paris, France
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Università degli Studi di Pavia, 27100, Pavia, PV, Italy
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University of Pennsylvania, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Pennsylvania State University, 16802, University Park, PA, USA
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Physical Research Laboratory, 380 009, Ahmedabad, India
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Università di Pisa, 56127, Pisa, Italy
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University of Pittsburgh, 15260, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
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University of Puerto Rico, 00681, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, USA
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Punjab Agricultural University, 141004, Ludhiana, India
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Radboud University, NL-6525, Nijmegen, AJ, Netherlands
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University of Rochester, 14627, Rochester, NY, USA
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Royal Holloway College, TW20 0EX, London, UK
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Rutgers University, 08854, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, OX11 0QX, Didcot, UK
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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 94025, Menlo Park, CA, USA
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Sanford Underground Research Facility, 57754, Lead, SD, USA
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Università del Salento, 73100, Lecce, Italy
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Universidad Sergio Arboleda, 11022, Bogotá, Colombia
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University of Sheffield, S3 7RH, Sheffield, UK
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South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 57701, Rapid City, SD, USA
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South Dakota State University, 57007, Brookings, SD, USA
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University of South Carolina, 29208, Columbia, SC, USA
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Southern Methodist University, 75275, Dallas, TX, USA
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Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, 11794, New York, USA
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University of Sussex, BN1 9RH, Brighton, UK
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Syracuse University, 13244, Syracuse, NY, USA
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University of Tennessee, 37996, Knoxville, TN, USA
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Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, 78412, Corpus Christi, TX, USA
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University of Texas at Arlington, 76019, Arlington, TX, USA
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University of Texas at Austin, 78712, Austin, TX, USA
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University of Toronto, M5S 1A1, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Tufts University, 02155, Medford, MA, USA
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Universidade Federal de São Paulo, 09913-030, São Paulo, Brazil
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University College London, WC1E 6BT, London, UK
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Valley City State University, 58072, Valley City, ND, USA
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Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, 700 064, West Bengal, India
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Virginia Tech, 24060, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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University of Warsaw, 00-927, Warsaw, Poland
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University of Warwick, CV4 7AL, Coventry, UK
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Wichita State University, 67260, Wichita, KS, USA
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William and Mary, 23187, Williamsburg, VA, USA
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University of Wisconsin Madison, 53706, Madison, WI, USA
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Yale University, 06520, New Haven, CT, USA
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Yerevan Institute for Theoretical Physics and Modeling, 0036, Yerevan, Armenia
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York University, M3J 1P3, Toronto, Canada
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callum.wilkinson@lhep.unibe.ch
Received:
2
June
2020
Accepted:
10
September
2020
Published online:
22
October
2020
The sensitivity of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) to neutrino oscillation is determined, based on a full simulation, reconstruction, and event selection of the far detector and a full simulation and parameterized analysis of the near detector. Detailed uncertainties due to the flux prediction, neutrino interaction model, and detector effects are included. DUNE will resolve the neutrino mass ordering to a precision of 5
, for all 
values, after 2 years of running with the nominal detector design and beam configuration. It has the potential to observe charge-parity violation in the neutrino sector to a precision of 3 (5) after an exposure of 5 (10) years, for 50% of all values. It will also make precise measurements of other parameters governing long-baseline neutrino oscillation, and after an exposure of 15 years will achieve a similar sensitivity to 
to current reactor experiments.
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