Supernova electron-neutrino interactions with xenon in the nEXO detector
Abstract
Electron-neutrino charged-current interactions with xenon nuclei were modeled in the nEXO neutrinoless double- decay detector (~5 metric ton, 90% Xe, 10% Xe) to evaluate its sensitivity to supernova neutrinos. Predictions for event rates and detectable signatures were modeled using the Model of Argon Reaction Low Energy Yields (MARLEY) event generator. We find good agreement between MARLEY's predictions and existing theoretical calculations of the inclusive cross sections at supernova neutrino energies. The interactions modeled by MARLEY were simulated within the nEXO simulation framework and were run through an example reconstruction algorithm to determine the detector's efficiency for reconstructing these events. The simulated data, incorporating the detector response, were used to study the ability of nEXO to reconstruct the incident electron-neutrino spectrum and these results were extended to a larger xenon detector of the same isotope enrichment. We estimate that nEXO will be able to observe electron-neutrino interactions with xenon from supernovae as far as 5-8 kpc from Earth, while the ability to reconstruct incident electron-neutrino spectrum parameters from observed interactions in nEXO is limited to closer supernovae.
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@article{arxiv.2405.19419,
title = {Supernova electron-neutrino interactions with xenon in the nEXO detector},
author = {nEXO Collaboration and S. Hedges and S. Al Kharusi and E. Angelico and J. P. Brodsky and G. Richardson and S. Wilde and A. Amy and A. Anker and I. J. Arnquist and P. Arsenault and A. Atencio and I. Badhrees and J. Bane and V. Belov and E. P. Bernard and T. Bhatta and A. Bolotnikov and J. Breslin and P. A. Breur and E. Brown and T. Brunner and E. Caden and G. F. Cao and L. Q. Cao and D. Cesmecioglu and E. Chambers and B. Chana and S. A. Charlebois and D. Chernyak and M. Chiu and R. Collister and M. Cvitan and J. Dalmasson and T. Daniels and L. Darroch and R. DeVoe and M. L. di Vacri and Y. Y. Ding and M. J. Dolinski and B. Eckert and M. Elbeltagi and R. Elmansali and L. Fabris and W. Fairbank and J. Farine and N. Fatemighomi and B. Foust and Y. S. Fu and D. Gallacher and N. Gallice and W. Gillis and D. Goeldi and A. Gorham and R. Gornea and G. Gratta and Y. D. Guan and C. A. Hardy and M. Heffner and E. Hein and J. D. Holt and E. W. Hoppe and A. House and W. Hunt and A. Iverson and P. Kachru and A. Karelin and D. Keblbeck and A. Kuchenkov and K. S. Kumar and A. Larson and M. B. Latif and K. G. Leach and B. G. Lenardo and D. S. Leonard and H. Lewis and G. Li and Z. Li and C. Licciardi and R. Lindsay and R. MacLellan and S. Majidi and C. Malbrunot and P. Martel-Dion and J. Masbou and K. McMichael and M. Medina-Peregrina and B. Mong and D. C. Moore and J. Nattress and C. R. Natzke and X. E. Ngwadla and K. Ni and A. Nolan and S. C. Nowicki and J. C. Nzobadila Ondze and J. L. Orrell and G. S. Ortega and C. T. Overman and L. Pagani and H. Peltz Smalley and A. Peña-Perez and A. Perna and A. Piepke and T. Pinto Franco and A. Pocar and J. -F. Pratte and H. Rasiwala and D. Ray and K. Raymond and S. Rescia and V. Riot and R. Ross and R. Saldanha and S. Sangiorgio and S. Schwartz and S. Sekula and J. Soderstrom and A. K. Soma and F. Spadoni and X. L. Sun and S. Thibado and A. Tidball and T. Totev and S. Triambak and R. H. M. Tsang and O. A. Tyuka and E. van Bruggen and M. Vidal and S. Viel and M. Walent and Q. D. Wang and W. Wang and Y. G. Wang and M. Watts and M. Wehrfritz and W. Wei and L. J. Wen and U. Wichoski and X. M. Wu and H. Xu and H. B. Yang and L. Yang and M. Yu and M. Yvaine and O. Zeldovich and J. Zhao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.19419},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
17 pages, 16 figures