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Supernovae and neutrinos

โœ Scribed by John F. Beacom


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
974 KB
Volume
118
Category
Article
ISSN
0920-5632

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โœฆ Synopsis


A long-standing problem in supernova physics is how to measure the total energy and temperature of v,, v,, vP, and V,. While of the highest importance, this is very difficult because these flavors only have neutral-current detector interactions. We propose that neutrino-proton elastic scattering, v + p -+ v + p, can be used for the detection of supernova neutrinos in scintillator detectors. It should be emphasized immediately that the dominant signal is on free protons. Though the proton recoil kinetic energy spectrum is soft, with Tp 2: 2Ez/M,, and the scintillation light output from slow, heavily ionizing protons is quenched, the yield above a realistic threshold is nearly as large as that from & +p -+ e+ + n. In addition, the measured proton spectrum is related to the incident neutrino spectrum. The ability to detect this signal would give detectors like KamLAND and Borexino a crucial and unique role in the quest to detect supernova neutrinos. These results are now published: J. F. Beacom, W. M. Farr and P. Vogel, Phys. Rev. D 66, 033001 (2002) [arXiv:hep-ph/0205220]; the details are given there [I].


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