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The detection of high-energy tau neutrinos remains a critical challenge in neutrino astronomy, limited by inadequate angular resolution and sensitivity in current detectors like IceCube and KM3NeT. We present a modular water Cherenkov…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Monong Yu , Yiren Chen , Lei Wang , Shiping Zhao , Xingyu Li , Qiang Yuan , Yi Zhang , Guang Yang

Neutrino emission offers a direct probe into the hydrodynamics and energy transport processes within a supernova. Fast-time variations in the neutrino luminosity and mean energy can provide insights into phenomena like turbulence,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-10 Jakob Beise , Segev BenZvi , Spencer Griswold , Nora Valtonen-Mattila , Erin O'Sullivan

Uncertainties related to the effect of neutrino coherent forward scattering in Earth's matter (MSW mechanism) and with the cross sections of quasi-elastic neutrino scattering on nuclear targets of the NO$\nu$A detectors are studied. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-15 Lyudmila D. Kolupaeva , Konstantin S. Kuzmin , Olga N. Petrova , Igor M. Shandrov

We report on the results of a Monte Carlo simulation study of a km^3 scale deep underwater Cherenkov detector aimed at detecting neutrinos of astrophysical origin. This analysis has been undertaken as part of the NEMO R&D project to develop…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-17 T. Montaruli , M. Ambriola et al

A suite of detectors around the world is poised to measure the flavor-energy-time evolution of the ten-second burst of neutrinos from a core-collapse supernova occurring in the Milky Way or nearby. Next-generation detectors to be built in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-12-19 Kate Scholberg

Dark matter detectors will soon be sensitive to Solar neutrinos via two distinct channels: coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering and neutrino electron elastic scattering. We establish an analysis method for extracting Solar model properties…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Billard , L. Strigari , E. Figueroa-Feliciano

The next Galactic core-collapse supernova (SN) should yield a large number of observed neutrinos. Using Bayesian techniques, we show that with an SN at a known distance up to 25 kpc, the neutrino events in a water Cherenkov detector similar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-11 Jackson Olsen , Yong-Zhong Qian

We present preliminary results for a neutrino oscillation analysis in progress on data collected with the IceCube 22-string detector during 2007 and 2008. The goal of this analysis is to measure muon neutrino disappearance as a function of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Carsten Rott

The LVD detector, located in the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratory (Italy), studies supernova neutrinos through the interactions with protons and carbon nuclei in the liquid scintillator and interactions with the iron nuclei of the…

We study the prospects for measuring the time variation of solar and atmospheric neutrino fluxes at future large-scale Xenon and Argon dark matter detectors. For solar neutrinos, a yearly time variation arises from the eccentricity of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-29 Yi Zhuang , Louis E. Strigari , Lei Jin , Samiran Sinha

Earth-skimming neutrinos are those which travel through the Earth's crust at a shallow angle. For Ultra-High-Energy (E > 1 PeV; UHE) earth-skimming tau neutrinos, there is a high-probability that the tau lepton created by a neutrino-Earth…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Anthony M. Brown , Mahdi Bagheri , Michele Doro , Eliza Gazda , Dave Kieda , Chaoxian Lin , Yasar Onel , Nepomuk Otte , Ignacio Taboada , Andrew Wang

Current strategies of indirect Dark Matter detection with neutrino telescopes are based on the search for high-energy neutrinos from the Solar core or from the center of the Earth. Here, we propose a new strategy based on the detection of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gianfranco Bertone

The detection of cosmic neutrinos with energies above 1017 eV got growing interest during recent years. Possible target materials for in-matter arrays of ~100 km3 size under discussion are water, ice and rock salt. Here we propose to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 R. Nahnhauer , A. A. Rostovtsev , D. Tosi

New observations with atmospheric neutrinos from the underground experiments SuperKamiokande, Soudan 2, and MACRO, together with earlier results from Kamiokande and IMB, are reviewed. The most recent observations reconfirm aspects of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-04-15 W. Anthony Mann

High-energy atmospheric muon neutrinos are detected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory with a high rate of almost a hundred thousand events per year. Being mainly produced in meson decays in cosmic-ray-induced air showers in the upper…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-09 Shuyang Deng

As low-threshold dark matter detectors advance in development, they will become sensitive to recoils from solar neutrinos which opens up the possibility to explore neutrino properties. We predict the enhancement of the event rate of solar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-20 Thomas Schwemberger , Tien-Tien Yu

The recent observation of NGC 1068 by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has opened a new window to neutrino physics with astrophysical baselines. In this Letter, we propose a new method to probe the nature of neutrino masses using these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-08 Kiara Carloni , Ivan Martinez-Soler , Carlos A. Arguelles , K. S. Babu , P. S. Bhupal Dev

Future multi-tonne Direct Detection experiments will be sensitive to solar neutrino induced nuclear recoils which form an irreducible background to light Dark Matter searches. Indeed for masses around 6 GeV the spectra of neutrinos and Dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-10 Jonathan H. Davis

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

That muon neutrinos $\nu_{\mu}$ oscillating into the mixture of tau neutrinos $\nu_{\tau}$ and sterile neutrinos $\nu_{s}$ has been studied to explain the atmospheric $\nu_{\mu}$ disappearance. In this scenario, the effect of Earth matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Pei-Hong Gu