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The single-phase detector design that is proposed in this document has been chosen as the reference design for the first 10~kt far detector module of the DUNE experiment.  Although the single phase liquid argon technology has been successfully operated on a smaller scale, a liquid argon detector on the scale of the DUNE experiment has never been built before.  In order to mitigate risks, DUNE-PT
is a crucial milestone that will inform the construction and operation of the first 10~kt module for the DUNE far detector.

A goal of the DUNE-PT is to perform an engineering test to validate the mechanical and electrical performance of the full-scale detector components to inform decisions that need to be made well in advance of the 2022 installation date of the first 10~kt module.  
The primary goal of the DUNE-PT and beam test is  to validate the physics performance of the detector in response to charged particles.
It would be of great value to take charged particle beam data before the LHC long shutdown in 2018 to further inform strategic DUNE decisions.  
However, even beam data taken after the shutdown is instrumental in assessing systematic detector uncertainties for DUNE, validating and improving reconstruction algorithms for particle identification and energy reconstruction.  
A charged particle beam data set represents a golden detector calibration which improves DUNE's sensitivity to its scientific goals. 
The DUNE experiment will have unprecedented sensitivity to CP violation in the lepton sector, the neutrino mass hierarchy, and certain proton decay modes.   \\
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The DUNE-PT represents the cumulation of years of R\&D effort.  The technology, data acquisition, computing, and installation procedures are mature and have been tested on smaller scales.  There is a well established organization to implement the prototype program.  

%The SPSC had favorable comments on the initial proposal for the prototyping of a single-phase liquid argon detector for the
%North Area facility, resulting in the request for the technical report that is presented in this document.