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Non-thermal neutrinos created by shock acceleration in successful and failed core-collapse supernova

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2021-01-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present a comprehensive study of neutrino shock acceleration in core-collapse supernova (CCSN). The leading players are heavy leptonic neutrinos, νμ\nu_{\mu} and ντ\nu_{\tau}; the former and latter potentially gain the energy up to 100\sim 100 MeV and 200\sim 200 MeV, respectively, through the shock acceleration. Demonstrating the neutrino shock acceleration by Monte Carlo neutrino transport, we make a statement that it commonly occurs in the early post bounce phase (50\lesssim 50 ms after bounce) for all massive stellar collapse experiencing nuclear bounce and would reoccur in the late phase (100\gtrsim 100 ms) for failed CCSNe. This opens up a new possibility to detect high energy neutrinos by terrestrial detectors from Galactic CCSNe; hence, we estimate the event counts for Hyper(Super)-Kamiokande, DUNE, and JUNO. We find that the event count with the energy of 80\gtrsim 80 MeV is a few orders of magnitude higher than that of the thermal neutrinos regardless of the detectors, and muon production may also happen in these detectors by νμ\nu_{\mu} with the energy of 100\gtrsim 100 MeV. The neutrino signals provide a precious information on deciphering the inner dynamics of CCSN and placing a constraint on the physics of neutrino oscillation; indeed, the detection of the high energy neutrinos through charged current reaction channels will be a smoking gun evidence of neutrino flavor conversion.

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@article{arxiv.2010.15136,
  title  = {Non-thermal neutrinos created by shock acceleration in successful and failed core-collapse supernova},
  author = {Hiroki Nagakura and Kenta Hotokezaka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.15136},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Accepted to MNRAS