Supernova neutrinos

Supernova neutrinos are weakly interactive elementary particles produced during a core-collapse supernova explosion.[1] A massive star collapses at the end of its life, emitting on the order of 1058 neutrinos and antineutrinos in all lepton flavors.[2] The luminosity of different neutrino and antineutrino species are roughly the same.[3] They carry away about 99% of the gravitational energy of the dying star as a burst lasting tens of seconds.[4][5] The typical supernova neutrino energies are 10 to 20 MeV.[6] Supernovae[a] are considered the strongest and most frequent source of cosmic neutrinos in the MeV energy range.

Since neutrinos are generated in the core of a supernova, they play a crucial role in the star's collapse and explosion.[7] Neutrino heating is believed to be a critical factor in supernova explosions.[1] Therefore, observation of neutrinos from supernovae provides detailed information about core collapse and the explosion mechanism.[8] Further, neutrinos undergoing collective flavor conversions in a supernova's dense interior offers opportunities to study neutrino-neutrino interactions.[9] The only supernova neutrino event detected so far is SN 1987A.[b] Nevertheless, with current detector sensitivities, it is expected that thousands of neutrino events from a galactic core-collapse supernova would be observed.[11] The next generation of experiments are designed to be sensitive to neutrinos from supernova explosions as far as Andromeda or beyond.[12] The observation of supernovae will broaden our understanding of various astrophysical and particle physics phenomena.[13] Further, coincident detection of supernova neutrino in different experiments would provide an early alarm to astronomers about a supernova.[14]

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  6. ^ Athar, M. Sajjad (2020). The physics of neutrino interactions. S. K. Singh. Cambridge, United Kingdom. ISBN 978-1-108-77383-6. OCLC 1153342277.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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  9. ^ Abbar, Sajad; Duan, Huaiyu (2018-08-16). "Fast neutrino flavor conversion: Roles of dense matter and spectrum crossing". Physical Review D. 98 (4): 043014. arXiv:1712.07013. Bibcode:2018PhRvD..98d3014A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.98.043014.
  10. ^ Agnes, P.; Albergo, S.; Albuquerque, I. F. M.; Alexander, T.; Alici, A.; Alton, A. K.; Amaudruz, P.; Arcelli, S.; Ave, M.; Avetissov, I. Ch.; Avetisov, R. I. (2020-11-01). "Sensitivity of future liquid argon dark matter search experiments to core-collapse supernova neutrinos". Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2011 (3): arXiv:2011.07819. arXiv:2011.07819. Bibcode:2021JCAP...03..043D. doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2021/03/043. S2CID 226965179.
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