2014/02/27 by C. Lujan-Peschard, G. Pagliaroli, F. Vissani · 27 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Detector #Energy (signal processing) #Energy spectrum #Neutrino #Neutrino Physics Research #Neutrino detector #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Radioactive Decay and Measurement Techniques #Scintillator #Supernova #Type II supernova #astro-ph.SR #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2014/07/051
published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2014(07), 051 (Institute of Physics) · 13 pages, 3 figures
arxiv created 2014/02/27 · openalex publication_date 2014/07/25 · arxiv updated 2015/06/18 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
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 scintillators in this respect, we study the entire expected energy spectrum in the Borexino, KamLAND and SNO+ detectors. We examine the various sources of uncertainties in the expectations, and in particular, those due to specific detector features and to the relevant cross sections. We discuss the possibility to identify the different neutrino flavors, and we quantify the effect of confusion, due to other components of the energy spectrum, overlapped with the neutral-current reactions of interest.