A Network of Neutral Current Spherical TPC's for Dedicated Supernova Detection
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2009-11-11 v2 Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract
The coherent contribution of all neutrons in neutrino nucleus scattering due to the neutral current offers a realistic prospect of detecting supernova neutrinos. As a matter of fact. for a typical supernova at 10 kpc, about 1000 events are expected usinga spherical gaseous detector of radius 4 m andemploying Xe gas at a pressure of 10 Atm. We propose a world wide network of several such simple, stable and low cost supernova detectors with a running time of a few centuries.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0503029,
title = {A Network of Neutral Current Spherical TPC's for Dedicated Supernova Detection},
author = {Y. Giomataris and J. D. Vergados},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0503029},
year = {2009}
}
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