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Supernova relic electron neutrinos and anti-neutrinos in future large-scale observatories

  • 1. Institut de Physique Nuclueaire, 91 - Orsay (France)

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We investigate the signal from supernova relic neutrinos in future large scale observatories, such as MEMPHYS (UNO, Hyper-K), LENA and GLACIER, at present under study. We discuss that complementary information might be gained from the observation of supernova relic electron antineutrinos and neutrinos using the scattering on protons on one hand, and on nuclei such as oxygen, carbon or argon on the other hand. When determining the relic neutrino fluxes we also include, for the first time, the coupling of the neutrino magnetic moment to magnetic fields within the core collapse supernova. We present numerical results on both the relic νe and ν-bare fluxes and on the number of events for νe + C12, νe + O16, νe + Ar40 and ν-bare + p for various oscillation scenarios. The observation of supernova relic neutrinos might provide us with unique information on core-collapse supernova explosions, on the star formation history and on neutrino properties, that still remain unknown. (authors)

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15 p.
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INIS-FR--09-0029

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