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Before massive stars heavier than $(8 \cdots 10)$ solar masses evolve to the phase of a gravitational core collapse, they will emit a huge number of MeV-energy neutrinos that are mainly produced in the thermal processes and nuclear weak…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-03 Hui-Ling Li , Yu-Feng Li , Liang-Jian Wen , Shun Zhou

New methods are proposed with the goal to determine absolute neutrino masses from the simultaneous observation of the bursts of neutrinos and gravitational waves emitted during a stellar collapse. It is shown that the neutronization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Arnaud , M. Barsuglia , M. A. Bizouard , F. Cavalier , M. Davier , P. Hello , T. Pradier

KM3NeT is a multi-purpose cubic-kilometer neutrino observatory under construction in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of ORCA and ARCA (for Oscillation and Astroparticle Research with Cosmics in the Abyss, respectively), currently both…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-10-27 William Assal , Damien Dornic , Feifei Huang , Emmanuel Le Guirriec , Massimiliano Lincetto , Godefroy Vannoye

Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are the explosive end-points of stellar evolution for $M_{ZAMS} \gtrsim 8$ $M_\odot$ stars. The cores of these stars collapse to neutron stars, a process in which high neutrino luminosity drives off the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-06 Anders Jerkstrand , Dan Milisavljevic , Bernhard Müller

The next core-collapse supernova in our Galaxy will be a spectacular event, with some $10^4$ neutrino detections in total expected among several detectors. This data will allow unprecedented tests of neutrino properties and new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. F. Beacom

RES-NOVA is a new proposed experiment for the investigation of astrophysical neutrino sources with archaeological Pb-based cryogenic detectors. RES-NOVA will exploit Coherent Elastic neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CE$\nu$NS) as detection…

The explosion mechanism of core-collapse supernovae is a long-standing problem in stellar astrophysics. We briefly outline the main contenders for a solution and review recent efforts to model core-collapse supernova explosions by means of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 B. Müller

Future large liquid-scintillator detectors can be implemented to observe neutrinos from a core-collapse supernova (SN) in our galaxy in various reaction channels: (1) The inverse beta decay $\overline{\nu}^{}_e + p \to n + e^+$; (2) The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-27 Jia-Shu Lu , Yu-Feng Li , Shun Zhou

The result of a search for neutrino bursts from supernova explosions using the Super-Kamiokande detector is reported. Super-Kamiokande is sensitive to core-collapse supernova explosions via observation of their neutrino emissions. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 Kamiokande Collaboration , M. Ikeda , A. Takeda , Y. Fukuda , M. R. Vagins

Predictions of the thermodynamic conditions for phase transitions at high baryon densities and large chemical potentials are currently uncertain and largely phenomenological. Neutrino observations of core-collapse supernovae can be used to…

Core-collapse supernovae are dramatic explosions marking the catastrophic end of massive stars. The only means to get direct information about the supernova engine is from observations of neutrinos emitted by the forming neutron star, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Kei Kotake , Tomoya Takiwaki , Yudai Suwa , Wakana Iwakami Nakano , Shio Kawagoe , Youhei Masada , Shin-ichiro Fujimoto

The current supernova detection technique used in IceCube relies on the sudden deviation of the summed photomultiplier noise rate from its nominal value during the neutrino burst, making IceCube a $\approx 3$ Megaton effective detection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 L. Demiroers , M. Ribordy , M. Salathe

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

Massive stars (M> 10Msun) end their lives with spectacular explosions due to gravitational collapse. The collapse turns the stars into compact objects such as neutron stars and black holes with the ejection of cosmic rays and heavy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 K. Sumiyoshi

The next Galactic core-collapse supernova (CCSN) presents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make astrophysical measurements using neutrinos, gravitational waves, and electromagnetic radiation. CCSNe local to the Milky Way are extremely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-04 Spencer Griswold , Segev BenZvi

Building on the technological success of the IceCube neutrino telescope, we outline a prospective low-energy extension that utilizes the clear ice of the South Pole. Aiming at a 10 Mton effective volume and a 10 MeV threshold, the detector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Sebastian Böser , Marek Kowalski , Lukas Schulte , Nora Linn Strotjohann , Markus Voge

A statistically significant detection of the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) is around the corner. To this purpose, we assess the contribution to the DSNB of magnetorotational collapses of massive stars, relying on a suite of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-01 Pablo Martínez-Miravé , Irene Tamborra , Miguel Ángel Aloy , Martin Obergaulinger

High energy neutrinos produced in astrophysical processes will allow for a new way of studying the universe. In order to detect the expected flux of high energy neutrinos from specific astrophysical sources, neutrino telescopes of a scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 P. A. Rapidis

A core collapse in the Milky Way will produce an enormous burst of neutrinos in detectors world-wide. Such a burst has the potential to provide an early warning of a supernova's appearance. I will describe the nature of the signal, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 K. Scholberg

KM3NeT's detection of a muon track produced by a $\sim 220 \, {\rm PeV}$ neutrino provides an opportunity to probe physics at center-of-momentum energies greater than those probed by the Large Hadron Collider or other existing particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-01 Toni Bertólez-Martínez , Dan Hooper