2006/07/10 by Lawrence J. Hall, Hall, Lawrence J., Hitoshi Murayama +6
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #astro-ph #hep-ex #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0607109
30 pages, 7 figures
arxiv created 2006/07/10 · openalex publication_date 2006/07/10 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2024/04/11 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A novel method for extracting cosmological evolution parameters is proposed, using a probe other than light: future observations of the diffuse anti-neutrino flux emitted from core-collapse supernovae (SNe), combined with the SN rate extracted from future SN surveys. The relic SN neutrino differential flux can be extracted by using future neutrino detectors such as Gadolinium-enriched, megaton, water detectors or 100-kiloton detectors of liquid Argon or liquid scintillator. The core-collapse SN rate can be reconstructed from direct observation of SN explosions using future precision observatories. Our method, by itself, cannot compete with the accuracy of the optical-based measurements but may serve as an important consistency check as well as a source of complementary information. The proposal does not require construction of a dedicated experiment, but rather relies on future experiments proposed for other purposes.