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Discovery potential for supernova relic neutrinos with slow liquid scintillator detectors

Detection of supernova relic neutrinos could provide key support for our current understanding of stellar and cosmological evolution, and precise measurements of these neutrinos could yield novel insights into the universe. In this paper,…

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The Next Generation of Photo-Detectors for Particle Astrophysics

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