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We have simulated the response of a high energy neutrino telescope to the stream of low energy neutrinos produced by a supernova. The nominal threshold of such detectors is in the GeV energy range. The passage of a large flux of MeV…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Halzen , J. E. Jacobsen , E. Zas

The neutrinos from a Type II supernova provide perhaps our best opportunity to probe cosmologically interesting muon and/or tauon neutrino masses. This is because matter enhanced neutrino oscillations can lead to an anomalously hot nu_e…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-02 G. M. Fuller , W. C. Haxton , G. C. McLaughlin

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

Thermal MeV neutrino emission from core-collapse supernovae offers a unique opportunity to probe physics beyond the Standard Model in the neutrino sector. The next generation of neutrino experiments, such as DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande, can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-20 Jose Alonso Carpio , Ali Kheirandish , Kohta Murase

Recently, we suggested that low-energy beta-beam neutrinos can be very useful for the study of supernova neutrino interactions. In this paper, we examine the use of a such experiment for the analysis of a supernova neutrino signal. Since…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Jachowicz , G. C. McLaughlin , C. Volpe

We show that the temperatures of the emergent non-electron neutrinos and the binding energy released by a galactic Type II supernova are determinable, assuming the Large Mixing Angle (LMA) solution is correct, from observations at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Barger , D. Marfatia , B. P. Wood

Dark matter detectors that utilize liquid xenon have now achieved tonne-scale targets, giving them sensitivity to all flavours of supernova neutrinos via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. Considering for the first time a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Rafael F. Lang , Christopher McCabe , Shayne Reichard , Marco Selvi , Irene Tamborra

Neutrino detectors are among the largest photon detection instruments, built to capture scarce photons upon energy deposition. Many discoveries in neutrino physics, including the neutrino itself, are inseparable from the advances in photon…

We examine the prospects for detecting supernova $\nu_e$ in JUNO, RENO-50, LENA, or other approved or proposed large liquid scintillator detectors. The main detection channels for supernova $\nu_e$ in a liquid scintillator are its elastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-30 Ranjan Laha , John F. Beacom , Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla

Development of large mass detectors for low-energy neutrinos and dark matter may allow supernova detection via neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering. An elastic-scattering detector could observe a few, or more, events per ton for a galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. J. Horowitz , K. J. Coakley , D. N. McKinsey

The signal produced in neutrino observatories by the pair-annihilation neutrinos emitted from a 20 $M_{\odot}$ pre-supernova star at the silicon burning phase is estimated. The spectrum of the neutrinos with an average energy $\sim$2 MeV is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Odrzywolek , M. Misiaszek , M. Kutschera

A new neutron detection concept is presented that is based on superconductive niobium (Nb) strips coated by a boron (B) layer. The working principle of the detector relies on the nuclear reaction 10B+n $\rightarrow$ $\alpha$+ 7Li , with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-23 V. Merlo , M. Salvato , M. Cirillo , M. Lucci , I. Ottaviani , A. Scherillo , G. Celentano , A. Pietropaolo

There is a great interest in measuring the non-electronic component of neutrinos from core collapse supernovae by observing, for the first time, also neutral-current reactions. In order to assess the physics potential of the ultra-pure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 C. Lujan-Peschard , G. Pagliaroli , F. Vissani

Open neutrino physics issues require precision studies, both theoretical and experimental ones, and towards this aim coherent neutral current neutrino-nucleus scattering events are expected to be observed soon. In this work, we explore…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-23 D. K. Papoulias , T. S. Kosmas

The time dependent neutrino oscillation signals due to the passage of a shock wave through the supernovae are analyzed for the case of three active neutrinos and also for the case that there are two additional sterile neutrinos. It is shown…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sandhya Choubey , N. P. Harries , G. G. Ross

New facilities to measure neutrino-nucleus cross sections, such as those possible in conjunction with spallation neutron sources, could provide an experimental foundation for the many neutrino-nucleus weak interaction rates needed in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 W. R. Hix , A. Mezzacappa , O. E. B. Messer , S. W. Bruenn

Neutrinos emitted during the collapse, bounce and subsequent explosion provide information about supernova dynamics. The neutrino spectra are determined by weak interactions with nuclei and nucleons in the inner regions of the star, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-15 S. R. Souza , A. W. Steiner , W. G. Lynch , R. Donangelo , M. A. Famiano

It is suggested that a large deep underocean (or ice) neutrino detector, given the presence of significant numbers of neutrinos in the PeV energy range as predicted by various models of Active Galactic Nuclei, can make unique measurements…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 John G. Learned , Sandip Pakvasa

Superheated drop detector (SDD) consisting of drops of superheated liquid of halocarbon is irradiated to neutrons and gamma-rays from 252Cf fission neutron source and 137Cs gamma source separately. The analysis of pulse height of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-21 Mala Das , S Seth , S Saha , S Bhattacharya , P Bhattacharjee

When a supernova explosion occurs in neighbors around hundreds pc, current and future neutrino detectors are expected to observe neutrinos from the presupernova star before the explosion. We show a possibility for obtaining the evidence for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-30 Takashi Yoshida , Koh Takahashi , Hideyuki Umeda , Koji Ishidoshiro