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Detecting Neutrinos from Supernova Bursts in PandaX-4T

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2024-03-12 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

Neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae are essential for the understanding of neutrino physics and stellar evolution. The dual-phase xenon dark matter detectors can provide a way to track explosions of galactic supernovae by detecting neutrinos through coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scatterings. In this study, a variation of progenitor masses as well as explosion models are assumed to predict the neutrino fluxes and spectra, which result in the number of expected neutrino events ranging from 6.6 to 13.7 at a distance of 10 kpc over a 10-second duration with negligible backgrounds at PandaX-4T. Two specialized triggering alarms for monitoring supernova burst neutrinos are built. The efficiency of detecting supernova explosions at various distances in the Milky Way is estimated. These alarms will be implemented in the real-time supernova monitoring system at PandaX-4T in the near future, providing the astronomical communities with supernova early warnings.

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@article{arxiv.2403.06220,
  title  = {Detecting Neutrinos from Supernova Bursts in PandaX-4T},
  author = {Binyu Pang and Abdusalam Abdukerim and Zihao Bo and Wei Chen and Xun Chen and Chen Cheng and Zhaokan Cheng and Xiangyi Cui and Yingjie Fan and Deqing Fang and Changbo Fu and Mengting Fu and Lisheng Geng and Karl Giboni and Linhui Gu and Xuyuan Guo and Chencheng Han and Ke Han and Changda He and Jinrong He and Di Huang and Yanlin Huang and Junting Huang and Zhou Huang and Ruquan Hou and Yu Hou and Xiangdong Ji and Yonglin Ju and Chenxiang Li and Jiafu Li and Mingchuan Li and Shuaijie Li and Tao Li and Qing Lin and Jianglai Liu and Congcong Lu and Xiaoying Lu and Lingyin Luo and Yunyang Luo and Wenbo Ma and Yugang Ma and Yajun Mao and Yue Meng and Xuyang Ning and Ningchun Qi and Zhicheng Qian and Xiangxiang Ren and Nasir Shaheed and Xiaofeng Shang and Xiyuan Shao and Guofang Shen and Lin Si and Wenliang Sun and Andi Tan and Yi Tao and Anqing Wang and Meng Wang and Qiuhong Wang and Shaobo Wang and Siguang Wang and Wei Wang and Xiuli Wang and Zhou Wang and Yuehuan Wei and Mengmeng Wu and Weihao Wu and Jingkai Xia and Mengjiao Xiao and Xiang Xiao and Pengwei Xie and Binbin Yan and Xiyu Yan and Jijun Yang and Yong Yang and Yukun Yao and Chunxu Yu and Ying Yuan and Zhe Yuan and Xinning Zeng and Dan Zhang and Minzhen Zhang and Peng Zhang and Shibo Zhang and Shu Zhang and Tao Zhang and Wei Zhang and Yang Zhang and Yingxin Zhang and Yuanyuan Zhang and Li Zhao and Qibin Zheng and Jifang Zhou and Ning Zhou and Xiaopeng Zhou and Yong Zhou and Yubo Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.06220},
  year   = {2024}
}

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9 pages,6 figures