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Description
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to make measurements of neutrino oscillations with high precision and probe for new physics. Neutrinos will be measured at two detector facilities, namely a Near Detector (ND) located at Fermilab close to where the neutrino beam is produced by the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF), and a Far Detector located 1300 km away at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF). The ND will play a crucial role in measuring the unoscillated neutrino flux, which is needed to constrain systematic uncertainties for precisely measuring neutrino oscillation parameters and determining the neutrino mass ordering. In this talk, the design of the ND facility and its detectors, their current status, and their related prototyping campaigns are presented.