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Title: Flavor triangle of the diffuse supernova neutrino background

Abstract

Although Galactic core-collapse supernovae (SNe) only happen a few times per century, every hour a vast number of explosions happen in the whole universe, emitting energy in the form of neutrinos, resulting in the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB). The DSNB has not yet been detected, but Super-Kamiokande doped with gadolinium is expected to yield the first statistically significant observation within the next several years. Since the neutrinos produced at the core collapse undergo mixing during their propagation to Earth, the flavor content at detection is a test of oscillation physics. In this paper, we estimate the expected DSNB data at the DUNE, Hyper-K and JUNO experiments which when combined are sensitive to all different neutrino flavors. Here, we determine how well the flavor content of the DSNB will be reconstructed in the future, for a Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein (MSW) scenario as well as a neutrino decay scenario. A large fraction of the flavor space will be excluded, but the heavy-lepton neutrino flux remains a challenge.

Authors:
 [1];  [1]
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1837496
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0020262
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 2021; Journal Issue: 05; Journal ID: ISSN 1475-7516
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

Citation Formats

Tabrizi, Zahra, and Horiuchi, Shunsaku. Flavor triangle of the diffuse supernova neutrino background. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2021/05/011.
Tabrizi, Zahra, & Horiuchi, Shunsaku. Flavor triangle of the diffuse supernova neutrino background. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2021/05/011
Tabrizi, Zahra, and Horiuchi, Shunsaku. Thu . "Flavor triangle of the diffuse supernova neutrino background". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2021/05/011. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1837496.
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author = {Tabrizi, Zahra and Horiuchi, Shunsaku},
abstractNote = {Although Galactic core-collapse supernovae (SNe) only happen a few times per century, every hour a vast number of explosions happen in the whole universe, emitting energy in the form of neutrinos, resulting in the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB). The DSNB has not yet been detected, but Super-Kamiokande doped with gadolinium is expected to yield the first statistically significant observation within the next several years. Since the neutrinos produced at the core collapse undergo mixing during their propagation to Earth, the flavor content at detection is a test of oscillation physics. In this paper, we estimate the expected DSNB data at the DUNE, Hyper-K and JUNO experiments which when combined are sensitive to all different neutrino flavors. Here, we determine how well the flavor content of the DSNB will be reconstructed in the future, for a Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein (MSW) scenario as well as a neutrino decay scenario. A large fraction of the flavor space will be excluded, but the heavy-lepton neutrino flux remains a challenge.},
doi = {10.1088/1475-7516/2021/05/011},
journal = {Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics},
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu May 06 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Thu May 06 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
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