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Neutrinos emitted during stellar core collapse leading to a supernova are primarily of the electron neutrino type at source which may undergo oscillation between flavor eigenstates during propagation to an earth-bound detector. Although the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Debasish Majumdar , Kamales Kar , Alak Ray , Amitava Raychaudhuri , Firoza K. Sutaria

Neutrinos produced in the hot and dense interior of the next galactic supernova would be visible at dark matter experiments in coherent elastic nuclear recoils. While studies on this channel have focused on successful core-collapse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-15 Nirmal Raj

We revisit the diffuse supernova neutrino background in light of recent systematic studies of stellar core collapse that reveal the quantitative impacts of the progenitor conditions on the collapse process. In general, the dependence of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Shunsaku Horiuchi , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Ko Nakamura , Tobias Fischer , Alexander Summa , Tomoya Takiwaki , Hans-Thomas Janka , Kei Kotake

We suggest the future detection of neutrinos from a Galactic core-collapse supernova can be used to infer the progenitor's inner mass density structure. We present the results from 20 axisymmetric core-collapse supernova simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-30 Shunsaku Horiuchi , Ko Nakamura , Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake

We study the neutral-current neutrino scattering for four nuclei in the iron region. We evaluate the cross sections for the relevant temperatures during the supernova core collapse and derive Gamow-Teller distributions from large-scale…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. Sampaio , K. Langanke , G. Martinez-Pinedo , D. J. Dean

In this paper, we examine the neutrino signals from 24 initially non-rotating, three-dimensional core-collapse supernova (CCSN) simulations carried to late times. We find that not only does the neutrino luminosity signal encode information…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-25 Lyla Choi , Adam Burrows , David Vartanyan

Core collapse supernova modeling has advanced considerably since the first numerical simulations were performed sixty years ago. In particular, the last decade has brought us sophisticated three-dimensional models with significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 Anthony Mezzacappa

Neutrinos play a crucial role in the collapse and explosion of massive stars, governing the infall dynamics of the stellar core, triggering and fueling the explosion and driving the cooling and deleptonization of the newly formed neutron…

This paper explores core-collapse supernovae as crucial targets for neutrino telescopes, addressing uncertainties in their simulation results. We comprehensively analyze eighteen modern simulations and discriminate among supernova models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-10 Maria Manuela Saez , Ermal Rrapaj , Akira Harada , Shigehiro Nagataki , Yong-Zhong Qian

The high energy neutrino signature from proton-proton and photo-meson interactions in a supernova remnant shell ejected prior to a gamma-ray burst provides a test for the precursor supernova, or supranova, model of gamma-ray bursts. Protons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Soebur Razzaque , Peter Meszaros , Eli Waxman

Neutrinos allow the probing of stellar interiors during core collapse, helping to understand the different stages and processes in the collapse. To date, supernova neutrinos have only been detected from a single event, SN1987A. Most studies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-11 Sean Heston , Emily Kehoe , Yudai Suwa , Shunsaku Horiuchi

In this paper, we calculate cross sections for charged-current neutrino-nucleus processes occuring under presupernova conditions. To treat thermal effects we extend self-consistent Skyrme-QRPA calculations to finite temperature by using the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Alan A. Dzhioev , A. I. Vdovin

Core-collapse supernovae are among the most fascinating phenomena in astrophysics and provide a formidable challenge for theoretical investigation. They mark the spectacular end of the lives of massive stars and, in an explosive eruption,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-08 H. -Thomas Janka , Florian Hanke , Lorenz Huedepohl , Andreas Marek , Bernhard Mueller , Martin Obergaulinger

We present the first systematic study of neutrino emissions from massive stars, continuously tracking the late evolutionary stages through the early core-collapse supernova phase. Using progenitor and supernova models, we analyze the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-11 Chinami Kato , Hiroki Nagakura , Akira Ito , Ryosuke Hirai , Shun Furusawa , Takashi Yoshida , Ryuichiro Akaho

The next galactic core-collapse supernova will deliver a wealth of neutrinos which for the first time we are well-situated to measure. These explosions produce neutrinos with energies between 10 and 100 MeV over a period of tens of seconds.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-03 Justin A. Vasel , Andrey Sheshukov , Alec Habig

Neutrinos from a Galactic core-collapse supernova will be measured by neutrino detectors minutes to days before an optical signal reaches Earth. We present a novel calculation showing the ability of current and near-future neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 Manne Segerlund , Erin O'Sullivan , Evan O'Connor

Aiming to distinguish two types of progenitors of core collapse supernovae, i.e., one with a core composed mainly of oxygen and neon (abbreviated as ONe core) and the other with an iron core (or Fe core), we calculated the luminosities and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-09 Chinami Kato , Milad Delfan Azari , Shoichi Yamada , Koh Takahashi , Hideyuki Umeda , Takashi Yoshida , Koji Ishidoshiro

Neutron stars are formed in core-collapse supernova explosions, where a large number of neutrinos are emitted. In this paper, supernova neutrino light curves are computed for the cooling phase of protoneutron stars, which lasts a few…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Ken'ichiro Nakazato , Hideyuki Suzuki

It has long been recognized that the neutrinos detected from the next core-collapse supernova in the Galaxy have the potential to reveal important information about the dynamics of the explosion and the nucleosynthesis conditions as well as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-23 Warren P. Wright , Gautam Nagaraj , James P. Kneller , Kate Scholberg , Ivo R. Seitenzahl

Core-collapse supernovae are the terminal explosions of massive stars. After successive phases of nuclear fusion proceeding up to silicon burning, these stars form an iron core that is supported by electron degeneracy pressure. The core…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 B. Mueller , B. Sykes