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Robust measurement of supernova $\nu_e$ spectra with future neutrino detectors

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2018-01-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Measuring precise all-flavor neutrino information from a supernova is crucial for understanding the core-collapse process as well as neutrino properties. We apply a chi-squared analysis for different detector setups to explore determination of νe\nu_{e} spectral parameters. Using a long-term two-dimensional core-collapse simulation with three time varying spectral parameters, we generate mock data to examine the capabilities of the current Super-Kamiokande detector and compare the relative improvements that gadolinium, Hyper-Kamiokande, and DUNE would have. We show that in a realistic three spectral parameter framework, the addition of gadolinium to Super-Kamiokande allows for a qualitative improvement in νe\nu_e determination. Significant improvements will be made by Hyper-Kamiokande and DUNE, allowing for much more precise determination of νe\nu_e spectral parameters.

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@article{arxiv.1711.00008,
  title  = {Robust measurement of supernova $\nu_e$ spectra with future neutrino detectors},
  author = {Alex Nikrant and Ranjan Laha and Shunsaku Horiuchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.00008},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

11 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D