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Supernovae are rare nearby, but they are not rare in the Universe, and all past core-collapse supernovae contributed to the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background (DSNB), for which the near-term detection prospects are very good. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 John F. Beacom , Louis E. Strigari

If a galactic supernova explosion occurs in the future, it will be critical to rapidly alert the community to the direction of the supernova by utilizing neutrino signals in order to enable the initiation of follow-up optical observations.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-02 Fumi Nakanishi , Shota Izumiyama , Masayuki Harada , Yusuke Koshio

Fully understanding the average core-collapse supernova requires detecting the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) in all flavors. While the DSNB $\bar{\nu}_e$ flux is near detection, and the DSNB $\nu_e$ flux has a good upper…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Anna M. Suliga , John F. Beacom , Irene Tamborra

Dark matter (DM) annihilations in the Galaxy may produce high energy neutrinos, which can be detected by the neutrino telescopes, for example IceCube, ANTARES and Super-Kamiokande. The neutrinos can also arise from hadronic interaction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peng-fei Yin , Jia Liu , Qiang Yuan , Xiao-jun Bi , Shou-hua Zhu

The future detection and measurement of the diffuse neutrino supernova background will shed light on the rate of supernovae events in the Universe, the star formation rate and the neutrino spectrum from each supernova. Little has been said…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-09 J. Barranco , Argelia Bernal , D. Delepine

We investigate the ability of the upcoming Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K) neutrino experiment to detect new physics phenomena beyond the standard, three-massive-neutrinos paradigm; namely the existence of a fourth, sterile neutrino or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-19 Kevin J. Kelly

Sub-GeV neutrinos produced in a stellar core may emerge from main sequence stars, white dwarfs and brown dwarfs producing possible observable signals of dark matter capture. A distribution of these stars near the Milky Way galactic center…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-13 Debajit Bose , Rohan Pramanick , Tirtha Sankar Ray

We derive new constraints on combination of dark matter - electron cross-section ($\sigma_{\chi e}$) and dark matter - neutrino cross-section ($\sigma_{\chi \nu}$) utilising the gain in kinetic energy of the dark matter (DM) particles due…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-30 Diptimoy Ghosh , Atanu Guha , Divya Sachdeva

Super-Kamiokande [SK] was upgraded through the addition of gadolinium sulfate to its ultrapure water, initiating the SK-Gd program. This development enables efficient neutron tagging via the large capture cross section of gadolinium,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-31 Yusuke Koshio , Masayuki Nakahata , Hiroyuki Sekiya , Mark R. Vagins

Large-volume neutrino experiments are ideal for testing boosted dark matter (BDM) scenarios. We propose, for the first time, an approach to utilize knockout neutrons by detecting de-excitation $\gamma$ rays and coincident captured neutrons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-10 Koun Choi , Jong-Chul Park

We use Super-K data to place new strong limits on interactions of sub-GeV Dark Matter (DM) with nuclei, that rely on the DM flux inevitably induced by cosmic-ray upscatterings. We derive analogous sensitivities at Hyper-K and DUNE and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-24 Yohei Ema , Filippo Sala , Ryosuke Sato

LENA (Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy) has been proposed as a next generation 50 kt liquid scintillator detector. Its large target mass allows to search for the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background (DSNB), which was generated by the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Randolph Möllenberg , Franz von Feilitzsch , Dominikus Hellgartner , Lothar Oberauer , Marc Tippmann , Jürgen Winter , Michael Wurm , Vincenz Zimmer

Fluxes of the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) are calculated based on a new modeling of galactic chemical evolution, where a variable stellar initial mass function (IMF) depending on the galaxy type is introduced and black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-16 Yosuke Ashida , Ken'ichiro Nakazato , Takuji Tsujimoto

Neutrino-dominated accretion flows (NDAFs) are one of the important MeV neutrino sources and significantly contribute to the cosmic diffuse neutrino background. In this paper, we investigate the spectrum of diffuse NDAF neutrino background…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-26 Yun-Feng Wei , Tong Liu , Cui-Ying Song

Next-generation ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrino telescopes, presently under planning, will have the potential to probe the decay of heavy dark matter (DM) into UHE neutrinos, with energies in excess of $10^7$~GeV. Yet, this potential may…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-13 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Victor Valera , Mauricio Bustamante , Walter Winter

Measuring the electron antineutrino component of the cosmic diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) is the next ambitious goal for low-energy neutrino astronomy. The largest flux is expected in the lowest accessible energy bin.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-01 Georg Raffelt , Timur Rashba

Non-standard neutrino interactions with a massive boson can produce the bosons in the core of core-collapse supernovae (SNe). After the emission of the bosons from the SN core, their subsequent decays into neutrinos can modify the SN…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-28 Kensuke Akita , Sang Hui Im , Mehedi Masud

We explore the supernova neutrino-boosted dark matter (SN$\nu$BDM) and its direct detection. During core-collapse supernovae, an abundance of neutrinos are emitted. These supernova neutrinos can transfer their kinetic energy to the light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-22 Jun-Wei Sun , Lei Wu , Yan-Hao Xu , Bin Zhu

We propose heavy decaying dark matter (DM) as a new probe of the cosmic neutrino background (C$\nu$B). Heavy DM, with mass $\gtrsim 10^9$ GeV, decaying into neutrinos can be a new source of ultrahigh-energy (UHE) neutrinos. Including this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-24 Writasree Maitra , Anna M. Suliga , Vedran Brdar , P. S. Bhupal Dev

The purpose of the present study is to compare the predictions of different models of star formation rate (SFR) history in the universe with the upper limit of Super Kamiokande for the neutrino background. To this aim we have calculated the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-07 Jafar Khodagholizadeh , Sepehr Arbabi Bidgoli , Zamri Zainal Abidin