Signal for supernova {bold {nu}}{sub {bold {mu}}} and {bold {nu}}{sub {bold {tau}}} neutrinos in water {hacek C}erenkov detectors

Langanke, K; Vogel, P; Kolbe, E

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.2629

Title: Signal for supernova {bold {nu}}{sub {bold {mu}}} and {bold {nu}}{sub {bold {tau}}} neutrinos in water {hacek C}erenkov detectors

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We suggest that photons with energies between 5 and 10 MeV, generated by the ({nu},{nu}{prime}{ital p}{gamma}) and ({nu},{nu}{prime}{ital n}{gamma}) reactions on {sup 16}O, constitute a signal which allows a unique identification of supernova {nu}{sub {mu}} and {nu}{sub {tau}} neutrinos in water {hacek C}erenkov detectors. We calculate the yield of such {gamma} events and estimate that a few hundred of them would be detected in Superkamiokande for a supernova at 10kpc distance. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}

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Langanke, K; Vogel, P; Kolbe, E ^[1]

W. K. Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, 106-38, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125 (United States)

Publication Date:: Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1996

Research Org.:: California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)

OSTI Identifier:: 285406

DOE Contract Number:: FG03-88ER40397

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Physical Review Letters

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 76; Journal Issue: 15; Other Information: PBD: Apr 1996

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 66 PHYSICS; SUPERNOVAE; MUON NEUTRINOS; TAU NEUTRINOS; SIGNALS; CHERENKOV COUNTERS; PHOTONS; MEV RANGE 01-10; OXYGEN 16; NEUTRINO REACTIONS; LIQUID SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; WATER

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                    Langanke, K, Vogel, P, Kolbe, E, Physics Department, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, and Institut fuer Physik, Universitaet Basel, Basel. Signal for supernova {bold {nu}}{sub {bold {mu}}} and {bold {nu}}{sub {bold {tau}}} neutrinos in water {hacek C}erenkov detectors.  United States: N. p., 1996. 
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                    Langanke, K, Vogel, P, Kolbe, E, Physics Department, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, & Institut fuer Physik, Universitaet Basel, Basel. Signal for supernova {bold {nu}}{sub {bold {mu}}} and {bold {nu}}{sub {bold {tau}}} neutrinos in water {hacek C}erenkov detectors.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.2629

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                    Langanke, K, Vogel, P, Kolbe, E, Physics Department, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, and Institut fuer Physik, Universitaet Basel, Basel. 1996.  
        "Signal for supernova {bold {nu}}{sub {bold {mu}}} and {bold {nu}}{sub {bold {tau}}} neutrinos in water {hacek C}erenkov detectors".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.2629.

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@article{osti_285406,

  title        = {Signal for supernova {bold {nu}}{sub {bold {mu}}} and {bold {nu}}{sub {bold {tau}}} neutrinos in water {hacek C}erenkov detectors},

  author       = {Langanke, K and Vogel, P and Kolbe, E and Physics Department, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125 and Institut fuer Physik, Universitaet Basel, Basel},

  abstractNote = {We suggest that photons with energies between 5 and 10 MeV, generated by the ({nu},{nu}{prime}{ital p}{gamma}) and ({nu},{nu}{prime}{ital n}{gamma}) reactions on {sup 16}O, constitute a signal which allows a unique identification of supernova {nu}{sub {mu}} and {nu}{sub {tau}} neutrinos in water {hacek C}erenkov detectors. We calculate the yield of such {gamma} events and estimate that a few hundred of them would be detected in Superkamiokande for a supernova at 10kpc distance. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}},

  doi          = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.2629},

  url          = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/285406},
  journal      = {Physical Review Letters},
number       = 15,

  volume       = 76,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1996},

  month        = {Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1996}

}

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