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Description
The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) is one of three Liquid Argon Time
Projection Chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detectors positioned along the axis of the Booster
Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab, as part of the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) Program.
The detector is currently being commissioned and is expected to take neutrino data this
year. SBND is characterized by superb imaging capabilities and will record over a million
neutrino interactions per year. Thanks to its unique combination of measurement resolution
and statistics, SBND will carry out a rich program of neutrino interaction measurements and
novel searches for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). It will enable the potential of
the overall SBN sterile neutrino program by performing a precise characterization of the
unoscillated event rate, and constraining BNB flux and neutrino-argon cross-section
systematic uncertainties. In this talk, the physics reach, current status, and future prospects
of SBND are discussed