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The time dependent neutrino oscillation signals due to the passage of a shock wave through the supernovae are analyzed for the case of three active neutrinos and also for the case that there are two additional sterile neutrinos. It is shown…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sandhya Choubey , N. P. Harries , G. G. Ross

Core-collapse supernovae produce an intense burst of electron antineutrinos in the few-tens-of-MeV range. Several Large Liquid Scintillator-based Detectors (LLSD) are currently operated worldwide, being very effective for low energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 V. Fischer , T. Chirac , T. Lasserre , C. Volpe , M. Cribier , M. Durero , J. Gaffiot , T. Houdy , A. Letourneau , G. Mention , M. Pequignot , V. Sibille , M. Vivier

The IceCube collaboration is building a cubic kilometer scale neutrino telescope at a depth of 2 km at the geographic South Pole, utilizing the clear Antarctic ice as a Cherenkov medium to detect cosmic neutrinos. The IceCube observatory is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Timo Karg

While the first kilometer-scale neutrino telescope, IceCube, is under construction, alternative plans exist to build even larger detectors that will, however, b e limited by a much higher neutrino energy threshold of 10 PeV or higher rather…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Francis Halzen , Dan Hooper

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is currently the largest and most sensitive detector for astrophysical neutrinos and has pioneered the field of high-energy neutrino astronomy. Despite being designed with the primary goal of identifying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-14 Per Arne Sevle Myhr , Gwenhaël de Wasseige

While existing detectors would see a burst of many neutrinos from a Milky Way supernova, the supernova rate is only a few per century. As an alternative, we propose the detection of ~ 1 neutrino per supernova from galaxies within 10 Mpc, in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shin'ichiro Ando , John F. Beacom , Hasan Yuksel

Core-collapse supernovae are among the prime candidate sources of high energy neutrinos. Accordingly, the IceCube collaboration has started a program to search for such a signal. IceCube operates an online search for neutrino bursts,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-21 D. F. Cowen , A. Franckowiak , M. Kowalski

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometer neutrino telescope located at the geographic South Pole. Cherenkov radiation emitted by charged secondary particles from neutrino interactions is observed by IceCube using an array of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-01 Kevin J. Meagher

The IceCube neutrino observatory uses $1\,\mathrm{km}^{3}$ of the natural Antarctic ice near the geographic South Pole as optical detection medium. When charged particles, such as particles produced in neutrino interactions, pass through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Anna Pollmann

IceCube is a 1 km$^3$ neutrino detector now being built at the South Pole. Its 4800 optical modules will detect Cherenkov radiation from charged particles produced in neutrino interactions. IceCube will search for neutrinos of astrophysical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Spencer R. Klein

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory features both a kilometer-cubed detector between 1.45 and 2.45 km depth and an array of ice-filled tanks, called IceTop, located at the surface. The presence of both detectors at the same location allows for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Delia Tosi , Hershal Pandya

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 study theoretical neutrino signals from core-collapse supernova (CCSN) computed using axisymmetric CCSN simulations that cover the post-bounce phase up to $\sim 4$~s. We provide basic quantities of the neutrino signals such as event…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 Hiroki Nagakura , Adam Burrows , David Vartanyan

Neutrino astronomy beyond the Sun was first imagined in the late 1950s; by the 1970s, it was realized that kilometer-scale neutrino detectors were required. The first such instrument, IceCube, is near completion and taking data. The IceCube…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-15 Francis Halzen , Spencer R. Klein

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the geographic South Pole, is a Cherenkov detector that continuously monitors a cubic kilometer of instrumented glacial ice for neutrino interactions in the sub-TeV to EeV energy range. Its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-04 Hans Niederhausen

We investigate the potential of a future kilometer-scale neutrino telescope such as the proposed IceCube detector in the South Pole, to measure and disentangle the yet unknown components of the cosmic neutrino flux, the prompt atmospheric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 D. Hooper , H. Nunokawa , O. L. G. Peres , R. Zukanovich Funchal

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 IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a cubic-kilometer-scale neutrino detector at the geographic South Pole, has reached a number of milestones in the field of neutrino astrophysics: the discovery of a high-energy astrophysical neutrino flux,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-21 Aya Ishihara

Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are among the most energetic processes in our Universe and are crucial for the understanding of the formation and chemical composition of the Universe. The precise measurement of the neutrino light curve…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-16 Jakob Beise

IceCube is a km^3 scale neutrino detector being constructed deep in the Antarctic ice. When complete, IceCube will consist of 4800 optical modules deployed on 80 strings between 1450 and 2450 m of depth. During the 2007-2008 data taking…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Erik Strahler