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Neutrinos play a crucial role in the collapse and explosion of massive stars, governing the infall dynamics of the stellar core, triggering and fueling the explosion and driving the cooling and deleptonization of the newly formed neutron…

This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the only supernova from which we have detected neutrinos - SN 1987A. The twenty or so neutrinos that were detected were mined to great depth in order to determine the events that occurred in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-04 Shunsaku Horiuchi , James P Kneller

We investigate the sensitivity of some of the proposed next-generation neutrino experiments to a galactic supernova. In particular, we study how well the supernova parameters (the average energies and luminosities) can be separated from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Solveig Skadhauge , Renata Zukanovich Funchal

It has been hypothesized recently that core collapse supernovae are triggered by mildly relativistic jets following observations of radio properties of these explosions. Association of a jet, similar to a gamma-ray burst jet but only…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Soebur Razzaque , Peter Meszaros , Eli Waxman

We investigate the possibility to use the neutrinos coming from a future galactic supernova explosion to perform neutrino oscillation tomography of the Earth's core. We propose to use existing or planned detectors, resulting in an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Manfred Lindner , Tommy Ohlsson , Ricard Tomas , Walter Winter

The neutrino burst from a galactic supernova can help determine the neutrino mass hierarchy and $\theta_{13}$, and provide crucial information about supernova astrophysics. Here we review our current understanding of the neutrino burst,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Amol Dighe

Core-collapse supernovae (SNe) are powerful neutrino sources and as such important targets for the growing array of neutrino observatories. We review the current status of SN theory and the expected characteristics of the neutrino signal.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 G. G. Raffelt

The construction of large volume detectors of high energy, >1 TeV, neutrinos is mainly driven by the search for extra-Galactic neutrino sources. The existence of such sources is implied by observations of ultra-high energy, >10^{19} eV,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Waxman

This paper explores core-collapse supernovae as crucial targets for neutrino telescopes, addressing uncertainties in their simulation results. We comprehensively analyze eighteen modern simulations and discriminate among supernova models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-10 Maria Manuela Saez , Ermal Rrapaj , Akira Harada , Shigehiro Nagataki , Yong-Zhong Qian

Neutrinos play a key role in core-collapse supernova explosions. Carrying information from deep inside the stellar core, neutrinos are direct probes of the supernova mechanism. Intriguing recent developments on the role of neutrinos in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-26 Irene Tamborra

We investigate the potential to probe new neutrino physics with future experiments measuring coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering. Experiments with high statistics should become feasible soon and allow to constrain parameters with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Manfred Lindner , Werner Rodejohann , Xun-Jie Xu

While neutrinos are often treated as a background for many dark matter experiments, these particles offer a new avenue for physics: the detection of core-collapse supernovae. Supernovae are extremely energetic, violent and complex events…

We review the prospects for probing new physics with neutrino astrophysics. High energy neutrinos provide an important means of accessing physics beyond the electroweak scale. Neutrinos have a number of advantages over conventional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-18 Nicole F. Bell

A novel method for extracting cosmological evolution parameters is proposed, using a probe other than light: future observations of the diffuse anti-neutrino flux emitted from core-collapse supernovae (SNe), combined with the SN rate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Lawrence J. Hall , Hitoshi Murayama , Michele Papucci , Gilad Perez

There is a great interest in measuring the non-electronic component of neutrinos from core collapse supernovae by observing, for the first time, also neutral-current reactions. In order to assess the physics potential of the ultra-pure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 C. Lujan-Peschard , G. Pagliaroli , F. Vissani

The exciting possibility of detecting supernova, solar, and atmospheric neutrinos with coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering detectors is within reach, opening up new avenues to probe New Physics. We explore the possibility of constraining…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-07 Anna M. Suliga , Irene Tamborra

Neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae are essential for the understanding of neutrino physics and stellar evolution. The dual-phase xenon dark matter detectors can provide a way to track explosions of galactic supernovae by detecting…

I shall review some of the recent results concerning the astrophysics of a core collapse supernova (SN) and neutrino oscillations. Neutrinos play an important role in the SN explosion, and they also carry most of the energy of the collapse.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Amol Dighe

The multi-messenger observation of the next galactic core-collapse supernova will shed light on the different physical processes involved in these energetic explosions. Good timing and pointing capabilities of neutrino detectors would help…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-18 Alexis Coleiro , Marta Colomer Molla , Damien Dornic , Massimiliano Lincetto , Vladimir Kulikovskiy

The neutrino telescopes of the present generation, depending on their specific features, can reconstruct the neutrino spectra from a galactic burst. Since the optical counterpart could be not available, it is desirable to have at hand…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-02 Ernesto Kemp , Bruno Miguez , Walter Fulgione