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Core-collapse supernovae (SNe) are one of the most powerful cosmic sources of neutrinos, with energies of several MeV. The emission of neutrinos and antineutrinos of all flavors carries away the gravitational binding energy of the compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-18 Maria Manuela Saez

The hope is that in the near future neutrino astronomy, born with the identification of thermonuclear fusion in the sun and the particle processes controlling the fate of a nearby supernova, will reach throughout and beyond our Galaxy and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Barwick , F. Halzen , P. B. Price

We assess the potential of using presupernova neutrino signals at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) to probe the yet-unknown neutrino mass hierarchy. Using models for stars of 12, 15, 20, and 25 solar masses, we find that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Gang Guo , Yong-Zhong Qian , Alexander Heger

Neutrinos are produced by a variety of sources that comprise our Sun, explosive environments such as core-collapse supernovae, the Earth and the Early Universe. The precise origin of the recently discovered ultra-high energy neutrinos is to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-25 Cristina Volpe

The interpretation of the SN1987A neutrino data continues to be hindered by significant absolute timing uncertainties and a well-known tension in the angular distributions. We perform a quantitative, high-precision alignment of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-08 Riccardo Maria Bozza , Vigilante di Risi , Veronica Oliviero , Giulia Ricciardi , Francesco Vissani

Direct dark matter detection experiments will soon be sensitive to neutrinos from astrophysical sources, including the Sun, the atmosphere, and supernova. This sets an important benchmark for these experiments, and opens up a new window in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Bhaskar Dutta , Louis E. Strigari

Future galactic supernovae will provide an extremely long baseline for studying the properties and interactions of neutrinos. In this paper, we discuss the possibility of using such an event to constrain (or discover) the effects of exotic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-01 Chris Kelso , Dan Hooper

Neutrinos are pivotal signals in multi-messenger observations of supernovae (SNe). Recent advancements in the analysis method of supernova (SN) neutrinos, especially in quantitative analysis, have significantly broadened scientific…

Low Energy solar neutrino detection plays a fundamental role in understanding both solar astrophysics and particle physics. After introducing the open questions on both fields, we review here the major results of the last two years and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-11-26 Davide D'Angelo

Neutrinos are fundamental particles ubiquitous in the Universe. Their properties remain elusive despite more than 50 years of intense research activity. In this review we remind the reader of the noticeable properties of these particles and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 S. Turck-Chieze , S. Couvidat

Since its original postulation by Wolfgang Pauli in 1930, the neutrino has played a prominent role in our understanding of nuclear and particle physics. In the intervening 80 years, scientists have detected and measured neutrinos from a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-16 J. A. Formaggio , G. P. Zeller

The e- and e+ energy spectra from the SN1987A Supernova neutrino burst interactions are calculated and compared to the observed spectra in Kamiokande-II and IMB experiments. Neutrino oscillations in Supernova and regeneration effects in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Bekman , J. Holeczek , J. Kisiel

With the advent of time-domain astronomy and the game-changing next generation of telescopes, we have unprecedented opportunities to explore the most energetic events in our Universe through electromagnetic radiation, gravitational waves,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 Irene Tamborra

Neutrinos are produced during stellar evolution by means of thermal and thermonuclear processes. We model the cumulative neutrino flux expected at Earth from all stars in the Milky Way: the Galactic stellar neutrino flux (GS$\nu$F). We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-08 Pablo Martínez-Miravé , Irene Tamborra

In this report are recalled in a simple form some of the main concepts about neutrinos, starting from their discovery and classifying them in the Standard Model of the Microcosm. Then are presented the main natural sources of neutrinos,…

Popular Physics · Physics 2013-04-15 Giorgio Giacomelli

A long-standing problem in supernova physics is how to measure the total energy and temperature of $\nu_\mu$, $\nu_\tau$, $\bar{\nu}_\mu$, and $\bar{\nu}_\tau$. While of the highest importance, this is very difficult because these flavors…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 John F. Beacom

The neutrino signal from SN1987A confirmed the core-collapse scenario and the possible formation of a neutron star. Although this compact object has eluded all observations, theoretical and numerical developments have allowed a glimpse of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Nissim Fraija , Cristian G. Bernal , A. M. Hidalgo-Gamez

As neutrinos become a significant background for projected dark matter experiments, the community will become concerned with determining if events counted in a dark matter experiment are good dark matter candidates or low-energy neutrinos…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-09 Nicole Hartman , Stephen Sekula

The recent observation of neutrino oscillations with atmospheric and solar neutrinos, implying that neutrinos are not massless, is a discovery of paramount importance for particle physics and particle astrophysics. This invited lecture…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-23 N. Schmitz

The modern picture of the neutrino as a multiple mass highly mixed neutral particle has emerged over 40 years of study. Best known of the issues leading to this picture was the apparent loss of neutrinos coming from the sun. This article…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2016-06-23 John M. LoSecco