The large-volume liquid-scintillator detector LENA (Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy) will provide high-grade background discrimination and enable the detection of diffuse supernova neutrinos (DSN) in an almost background-free energy window from ~10 to 25 MeV. Within ten years of exposure, it will be possible to derive significant constraints on both core-collapse supernova models and the supernova rate in the near universe up to redshifts z<2.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0701305,
title = {Detection potential for the diffuse supernova neutrino background in the large liquid-scintillator detector LENA},
author = {M. Wurm and F. von Feilitzsch and M. Goeger-Neff and K. A. Hochmuth and T. Marrodan Undagoitia and L. Oberauer and W. Potzel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0701305},
year = {2008}
}
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11 pages, 8 figures. accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D. accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D