Supernova neutrino detection in NOvA
Abstract
The NOvA long-baseline neutrino experiment uses a pair of large, segmented, liquid-scintillator calorimeters to study neutrino oscillations, using GeV-scale neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI beam. These detectors are also sensitive to the flux of neutrinos which are emitted during a core-collapse supernova through inverse beta decay interactions on carbon at energies of . This signature provides a means to study the dominant mode of energy release for a core-collapse supernova occurring in our galaxy. We describe the data-driven software trigger system developed and employed by the NOvA experiment to identify and record neutrino data from nearby galactic supernovae. This technique has been used by NOvA to self-trigger on potential core-collapse supernovae in our galaxy, with an estimated sensitivity reaching out to 10~kpc distance while achieving a detection efficiency of 23\% to 49\% for supernovae from progenitor stars with masses of 9.6\~M to 27\~M, respectively.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2005.07155,
title = {Supernova neutrino detection in NOvA},
author = {NOvA Collaboration and M. A. Acero and P. Adamson and G. Agam and L. Aliaga and T. Alion and V. Allakhverdian and N. Anfimov and A. Antoshkin and E. Arrieta-Diaz and L. Asquith and A. Aurisano and A. Back and C. Backhouse and M. Baird and N. Balashov and P. Baldi and B. A. Bambah and S. Bashar and K. Bays and S. Bending and R. Bernstein and V. Bhatnagar and B. Bhuyan and J. Bian and J. Blair and A. C. Booth and P. Bour and R. Bowles and C. Bromberg and N. Buchanan and A. Butkevich and V. Bychkov and S. Calvez and T. J. Carroll and E. Catano-Mur and S. Childress and B. C. Choudhary and T. E. Coan and M. Colo and L. Corwin and L. Cremonesi and G. S. Davies and P. F. Derwent and P. Ding and Z. Djurcic and M. Dolce and D. Doyle and D. Dueñas Tonguino and E. C. Dukes and P. Dung and H. Duyang and S. Edayath and R. Ehrlich and M. Elkins and G. J. Feldman and P. Filip and W. Flanagan and J. Franc and M. J. Frank and H. R. Gallagher and R. Gandrajula and F. Gao and S. Germani and A. Giri and R. A. Gomes and M. C. Goodman and V. Grichine and M. Groh and R. Group and B. Guo and A. Habig and F. Hakl and A. Hall and J. Hartnell and R. Hatcher and A. Hatzikoutelis and K. Heller and V Hewes and A. Himmel and A. Holin and B. Howard and J. Huang and J. Hylen and F. Jediny and C. Johnson and M. Judah and I. Kakorin and D. Kalra and D. M. Kaplan and R. Keloth and O. Klimov and L. W. Koerner and L. Kolupaeva and S. Kotelnikov and M. Kubu and Ch. Kullenberg and A. Kumar and C. D. Kuruppu and V. Kus and T. Lackey and K. Lang and L. Li and S. Lin and A. Lister and M. Lokajicek and S. Luchuk and S. Magill and W. A. Mann and M. L. Marshak and M. Martinez-Casales and V. Matveev and B. Mayes and D. P. Méndez and M. D. Messier and H. Meyer and T. Miao and W. H. Miller and S. R. Mishra and A. Mislivec and R. Mohanta and A. Moren and A. Morozova and L. Mualem and M. Muether and S. Mufson and K. Mulder and R. Murphy and J. Musser and D. Naples and N. Nayak and J. K. Nelson and R. Nichol and G. Nikseresht and E. Niner and A. Norman and A. Norrick and T. Nosek and A. Olshevskiy and T. Olson and J. Paley and R. B. Patterson and G. Pawloski and O. Petrova and R. Petti and R. K. Plunkett and F. Psihas and A. Rafique and V. Raj and B. Ramson and B. Rebel and P. Rojas and V. Ryabov and O. Samoylov and M. C. Sanchez and S. Sánchez Falero and I. S. Seong and P. Shanahan and A. Sheshukov and P. Singh and V. Singh and E. Smith and J. Smolik and P. Snopok and N. Solomey and A. Sousa and K. Soustruznik and M. Strait and L. Suter and A. Sutton and C. Sweeney and R. L. Talaga and B. Tapia Oregui and P. Tas and R. B. Thayyullathil and J. Thomas and E. Tiras and D. Torbunov and J. Tripathi and A. Tsaris and Y. Torun and J. Urheim and P. Vahle and Z. Vallari and J. Vasel and P. Vokac and T. Vrba and M. Wallbank and T. K. Warburton and M. Wetstein and D. Whittington and D. A. Wickremasinghe and S. G. Wojcicki and J. Wolcott and A. Yallappa Dombara and K. Yonehara and S. Yu and Y. Yu and S. Zadorozhnyy and J. Zalesak and Y. Zhang and R. Zwaska},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.07155},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
30 pages, 17 figures