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The present experimental status does not exclude weak-strength non-standard interactions of neutrinos with electrons. These interactions can be revealed in solar neutrino experiments. Our discussion covers several aspects related to this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Zurab Berezhiani , R. S. Raghavan , Anna Rossi

The formalism of flavor conversion of supernova neutrinos is generalized to include possible differences in the fluxes of the muon and tau neutrinos produced in the star. In this case the radiatively induced difference of the nu_mu and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Kh. Akhmedov , C. Lunardini , A. Yu. Smirnov

The proton light output function in electron-equivalent energy of various scintillators based on linear alkylbenzene (LAB) has been measured in the energy range from 1 MeV to 17.15 MeV for the first time. The measurement was performed at…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-17 B. von Krosigk , L. Neumann , R. Nolte , S. Röttger , K. Zuber

We review the phenomenology of ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrino detection. The motivations for looking for such neutrinos stemming from observational evidence and the potential for new physics discoveries are enumerated, and their expected…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Raj Gandhi

The neutrino-nucleon cross section is slightly larger than that for $\bar\nu-N$. Therefore, $\bar\nu$ will escape more quickly from core collapse supernovae leaving the star $\nu$ rich. A diffusion formalism is used to calculate the time…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. J. Horowitz , Gang Li

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

Ton-scale direct dark matter search experiments should be sensitive to neutrino-induced recoil events from either $^8$B solar neutrinos or the brief but intense flux from a core collapse supernova in the Milky Way. These low-threshold…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-06 Tetiana Kozynets , Scott Fallows , Carsten B. Krauss

Recent years have witnessed many exciting breakthroughs in neutrino physics. The detection of neutrino oscillations has proved that neutrinos are massive particles but the assessment of their absolute mass scale is still an outstanding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-07 Angelo Nucciotti

The study of the neutral current elastic scattering of neutrinos on protons at lower energies can be used as a compelling probe to improve our knowledge of the strangeness of the proton. We consider a neutrino beam generated from pion decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-13 Giulia Pagliaroli , Carolina Lujan-Peschard , Manimala Mitra , Francesco Vissani

The flavor composition of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos is a rich observable. However, present analyses cannot effectively distinguish particle showers induced by $\nu_e$ versus $\nu_\tau$. We show that this can be accomplished by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-24 Shirley Weishi Li , Mauricio Bustamante , John F. Beacom

Scintillation light is used in liquid argon (LAr) neutrino detectors to provide a trigger signal, veto information against cosmic rays, and absolute event timing. In this work, we discuss additional opportunities offered by detectors with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-01-27 M. Sorel

A very massive star with a carbon-oxygen core in the range of $64$ M$_{\odot}<M_{\mathrm{CO}}<133$ M$_{\odot}$ is expected to undergo a very different kind of explosion known as a pair instability supernova. Pair instability supernovae are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-22 Warren P. Wright , Matthew S. Gilmer , Carla Fröhlich , James P. Kneller

We propose the addition of scintillator to the existing MiniBooNE detector to allow a test of the neutral-current/charged-current (NC/CC) nature of the MiniBooNE low-energy excess. Scintillator will enable the reconstruction of 2.2 MeV…

Almost 30 years have passed since the successful detection of supernova neutrinos from SN 1987A. In the last decades, remarkable progress has been made in neutrino detection technique, through which it may be possible to detect neutrinos…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 Chinami Kato , Koji Ishidoshiro , Takashi Yoshida

In-ice radio-detection is a promising technique to discover and characterize ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrinos, with energies above 100 PeV, adopted by present - ARA, ARIANNA, and RNO-G - and planned - IceCube-Gen2. So far, their ability to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-02 Alan Coleman , Oscar Ericsson , Mauricio Bustamante , Christian Glaser

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is highly sensitive to neutrino bursts of $\mathcal{O}$(10) MeV energy that are would be generated by core collapse supernovae in our Galaxy. It will resolve temporal structures in supernova light curves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-23 Alexander Fritz , David Kappesser

The oscillations of ultra-relativistic neutrinos are realized by the propagation of assumed zero-mass on-shell neutrinos with the speed of light in vacuum combined with the phase modulation by the small mass term…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-08 Kazuo Fujikawa

A large-volume liquid scintillator can be used as a tracking detector to measure high-energy neutrino events, like atmospheric neutrinos and neutrino beams. The lepton flavor recognition is almost absolute above 1 GeV. The energy resolution…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-09-29 Juha Peltoniemi

A high-statistics measurement of the neutrinos from a galactic core-collapse supernova is extremely important for understanding the explosion mechanism, and studying the intrinsic properties of neutrinos themselves. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Jia-Shu Lu , Jun Cao , Yu-Feng Li , Shun Zhou

The purpose of the present paper is to study the neutrino oscillations as they may appear in the low energy neutrinos emitted in triton decay, with maximum neutrino energy of 18.6 KeV. Such low energy neutrino oscillations can only be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Giomataris , J. D. Vergados