INTENSE has been dedicated to the construction, commissioning and operation of the detectors employed in the SBN at Fermilab and in ProtoDUNE at CERN. This includes the Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers, the associated electronics, the calibration and data acquisitions systems, and the scintillator-based Cosmic Ray Taggers necessary to reduce the cosmic-ray induced backgrounds. INTENSE researchers have provided leading contribution to the development of software methods to optimize codes for neutrino event reconstruction at MicroBooNE, ICARUS, SBND and ProtoDUNE. Machine learning algorithms and deep learning tools are widely employed to improve pattern recognition algorithms. The new algorithms have been widely tested on real events and tuned to each SBN detector and ProtoDUNE. INTENSE researchers have been working also on the analysis of the Fermilab SBN and ProtoDUNE experiments. Using the full statistics collected by MicroBooNE in stand alone operation the nature of the MiniBooNE signal is thoroughly investigated to determine the nature as being due to a so far unknown background or a potential new physics signal. Taking advantage of the large statistics collected by MicroBooNE, ICARUS, SBND and ProtoDUNE, exclusive channels of low-energy interactions can be studied by measuring differential cross-sections. Once all three detectors have been made operational, data have begun to be combined to perform the full SBN search for oscillations using a global fit of the three-detector response. The neutrino events recorded at the far position by ICARUS can be compared to the un-oscillated neutrino spectra measured by SBND at the near site. This is fundamental experience to provide input to the future DUNE experiment on the new reconstruction algorithms and the liquid-argon cross-section measurements.
INTENSE has been dedicated also to the construction and operation of the Mu2e experiment at Fermilab and the MEG-II and Mu3e experiments at PSI. This includes developing trigger and calibration algorithms at Mu2e, MEG-II and Mu3e, and developing the High Intensity Muon Beamlines at PSI and providing leading contribution to the analysis of the data collected by the experiments. The goal of Mu2e is the search for the neutrino-less muon conversion to electron in the field of an Aluminum nucleus, MEG-II for a positive muon decay to a positron and a photon, Mu3e for the decay of a positive muon decay to an electron and two positrons.
Networking among institutes, trainings of personnel, dissemination and outreach have been fundamental in INTENSE and has produced transfer of knowledge among participants and visibility of the project both towards the scientific community and the general public.
