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Title: Paleodetectors for Galactic supernova neutrinos

Abstract

Paleodetectors are a proposed experimental technique in which one would search for traces of recoiling nuclei in ancient minerals. Natural minerals on Earth are as old as $$\mathcal{O}$$(1) Gyr and, in many minerals, the damage tracks left by recoiling nuclei are also preserved for timescales long compared to 1 Gyr once created. Thus, even reading out relatively small target samples of order 100 g, paleodetectors would allow one to search for very rare events thanks to the large exposure, ϵ ~ 100 g Gyr = 105 t yr. Here, we explore the potential of paleodetectors to measure nuclear recoils induced by neutrinos from Galactic core collapse supernovae. We find that they would not only allow for a direct measurement of the average core collapse supernova rate in the Milky Way, but would also contain information about the time dependence of the local supernova rate over the past ~1 Gyr. Since the supernova rate is thought to be directly proportional to the star formation rate, such a measurement would provide a determination of the local star formation history. We investigate the sensitivity of paleodetectors to both a smooth time evolution and an enhancement of the core collapse supernova rate on relatively short timescales, as would be expected for a starburst period in the local group.

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Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
Swedish Research Council (VR); USDOE Office of Science (SC); The Dutch Research Council (NWO)
OSTI Identifier:
1618389
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1801768
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC007859; SC0007859; 638-2013-8993
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review D
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 101 Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics

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Baum, Sebastian, Edwards, Thomas D. P., Kavanagh, Bradley J., Stengel, Patrick, Drukier, Andrzej K., Freese, Katherine, Górski, Maciej, and Weniger, Christoph. Paleodetectors for Galactic supernova neutrinos. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.101.103017.
Baum, Sebastian, Edwards, Thomas D. P., Kavanagh, Bradley J., Stengel, Patrick, Drukier, Andrzej K., Freese, Katherine, Górski, Maciej, & Weniger, Christoph. Paleodetectors for Galactic supernova neutrinos. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.103017
Baum, Sebastian, Edwards, Thomas D. P., Kavanagh, Bradley J., Stengel, Patrick, Drukier, Andrzej K., Freese, Katherine, Górski, Maciej, and Weniger, Christoph. Wed . "Paleodetectors for Galactic supernova neutrinos". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.103017.
@article{osti_1618389,
title = {Paleodetectors for Galactic supernova neutrinos},
author = {Baum, Sebastian and Edwards, Thomas D. P. and Kavanagh, Bradley J. and Stengel, Patrick and Drukier, Andrzej K. and Freese, Katherine and Górski, Maciej and Weniger, Christoph},
abstractNote = {Paleodetectors are a proposed experimental technique in which one would search for traces of recoiling nuclei in ancient minerals. Natural minerals on Earth are as old as $\mathcal{O}$(1) Gyr and, in many minerals, the damage tracks left by recoiling nuclei are also preserved for timescales long compared to 1 Gyr once created. Thus, even reading out relatively small target samples of order 100 g, paleodetectors would allow one to search for very rare events thanks to the large exposure, ϵ ~ 100 g Gyr = 105 t yr. Here, we explore the potential of paleodetectors to measure nuclear recoils induced by neutrinos from Galactic core collapse supernovae. We find that they would not only allow for a direct measurement of the average core collapse supernova rate in the Milky Way, but would also contain information about the time dependence of the local supernova rate over the past ~1 Gyr. Since the supernova rate is thought to be directly proportional to the star formation rate, such a measurement would provide a determination of the local star formation history. We investigate the sensitivity of paleodetectors to both a smooth time evolution and an enhancement of the core collapse supernova rate on relatively short timescales, as would be expected for a starburst period in the local group.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.101.103017},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 10,
volume = 101,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed May 13 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Wed May 13 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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