Supernova Physics at DUNE
Abstract
The DUNE/LBNF program aims to address key questions in neutrino physics and astroparticle physics. Realizing DUNE's potential to reconstruct low-energy particles in the 10-100 MeV energy range will bring significant benefits for all DUNE's science goals. In neutrino physics, low-energy sensitivity will improve neutrino energy reconstruction in the GeV range relevant for the kinematics of DUNE's long-baseline oscillation program. In astroparticle physics, low-energy capabilities will make DUNE's far detectors the world's best apparatus for studying the electron-neutrino flux from a supernova. This will open a new window to unrivaled studies of the dynamics and neutronization of a star's central core in real time, the potential discovery of the neutrino mass hierarchy, provide new sensitivity to physics beyond the Standard Model, and evidence of neutrino quantum-coherence effects. The same capabilities will also provide new sensitivity to `boosted dark matter' models that are not observable in traditional direct dark matter detectors.
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@article{arxiv.1608.07853,
title = {Supernova Physics at DUNE},
author = {Artur Ankowski and John Beacom and Omar Benhar and Sun Chen and John Cherry and Yanou Cui and Alexander Friedland and Ines Gil-Botella and Alireza Haghighat and Shunsaku Horiuchi and Patrick Huber and James Kneller and Ranjan Laha and Shirley Li and Jonathan Link and Alessandro Lovato and Oscar Macias and Camillo Mariani and Anthony Mezzacappa and Evan O'Connor and Erin O'Sullivan and Andre Rubbia and Kate Scholberg and Tatsu Takeuchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.07853},
year = {2016}
}
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Summary of workshop "Supernova Physics at DUNE" held at Virginia Tech; for more details, see, http://cnp.phys.vt.edu/SNatDUNE/