Detecting Solar Neutrino Flare in Megaton and km3 detectors
Creators
- 1. Physics Department, Rome Univ. 1, Sapienza Ple A. Moro 2, 00185 (Italy) and INFN, Rome (Italy)
Description
To foresee a solar flare neutrino signal we infer its upper and lower bound. The upper bound was derived since a few years by general energy equipartition arguments on observed solar particle flare. The lower bound, the most compelling one for any guarantee neutrino signal, is derived by most recent records of hard Gamma bump due to solar flare on January 2005 (by neutral pion decay). Because neutral and charged pions (made by hadron scattering in the flare) are born on the same foot, their link is compelling: the observed gamma flux [Grechnev V.V. et al., (arXiv:0806.4424), Solar Physics, Vol. 1, October, (2008), 252] reflects into a corresponding one for the neutrinos, almost one to one. Moreover while gamma photons might be absorbed (in deep corona) or at least reduced inside the flaring plasma, the secondaries neutrino are not. So pion neutrinos should be even more abundant than gamma ones. Tens-hundred MeV neutrinos may cross undisturbed the whole Sun, doubling at least their rate respect a unique solar-side for gamma flare. Therefore we obtain minimal bounds opening a windows for neutrino astronomy, already at the edge of present but quite within near future Megaton neutrino detectors. Such detectors are considered mostly to reveal cosmic supernova background or rare Local Group (few Mpc) Supernovas events [Matthew D. Kistler et al. (0810.1959v1)]. However rarest (once a decade), brief (a few minutes) powerful solar neutrino 'flare' may shine and they may overcome by two to three order of magnitude the corresponding steady atmospheric neutrino noise on the Earth, leading in largest Neutrino detector at least to one or to meaning-full few events clustered signals. The voice of such a solar anti-neutrino flare component at a few tens MeVs may induce an inverse beta decay over a vanishing anti-neutrino solar background. Megaton or even inner ten Megaton Ice Cube detector at ten GeV threshold may also reveal traces in hardest energy of solar flares. Icecube, marginally, too. Solar neutrino flavors may shine light on neutrino mixing angles. Not only on orbit satellites but even human astronauts in Space may exploit underground neutrino detectors for the prompt alert on (otherwise) fast and maybe lethal solar explosions.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2009.02.035Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2009.02.035;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0812.4592v2;
- PII
- S0920-5632(09)00135-2;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
- Journal Volume
- 188
- Journal Page Range
- p. 142-145
- ISSN
- 0920-5632
- CODEN
- NPBSE7
Conference
- Title
- Neutrino oscillation workshop
- Acronym
- NOW 2008
- Dates
- 6-12 Sep 2008
- Place
- Otranto (Italy)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 41088421
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BETA DECAY; COSMIC NEUTRINOS; FLAVOR MODEL; GEV RANGE; LIMITING VALUES; MEV RANGE; NEUTRINO DETECTION; NEUTRINO REACTIONS; PARTICLE DECAY; PIONS NEUTRAL; SOLAR FLARES; SOLAR NEUTRINOS; SUPERNOVAE; UNDERGROUND; WEINBERG ANGLE
- Descriptors DEC
- BINARY STARS; BOSONS; COMPOSITE MODELS; COSMIC RADIATION; DECAY; DETECTION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; ERUPTIVE VARIABLE STARS; FERMIONS; HADRONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTON REACTIONS; LEPTONS; LEVELS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MESONS; NEUTRINOS; NUCLEAR DECAY; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; PIONS; PSEUDOSCALAR MESONS; QUARK MODEL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATIONS; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR PARTICLES; SOLAR RADIATION; STARS; STELLAR ACTIVITY; STELLAR FLARES; STELLAR RADIATION; VARIABLE STARS
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2009 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.