Supernova neutrino detection with IceCube
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, situated at the geographic South Pole, was completed in December 2010. A lattice of 5160 photomultiplier tubes monitors one cubic kilometer of deep Antarctic ice in order to detect neutrinos via Cherenkov photons emitted by charged by-products of their interaction i...
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ftunivbruxelles:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/168632 2023-05-15T13:42:08+02:00 Supernova neutrino detection with IceCube Heereman von Zuydtwyck, David 2012 No full-text files http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/168632 en eng uri/info:doi/10.3254/978-1-61499-173-1-359 uri/info:scp/84884898648 http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/168632 Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", 182 Physique des particules élémentaires info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:ulb-repo/semantics/articlePeerReview info:ulb-repo/semantics/openurl/article 2012 ftunivbruxelles 2022-06-12T20:36:31Z The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, situated at the geographic South Pole, was completed in December 2010. A lattice of 5160 photomultiplier tubes monitors one cubic kilometer of deep Antarctic ice in order to detect neutrinos via Cherenkov photons emitted by charged by-products of their interaction in matter. We report on IceCube's response to MeV neutrinos generated by core-collapse supernova explosions of nearby massive stars. This unique telescope was designed to detect energies greater than 100GeV. Due to subfreezing ice temperatures, the photomultipliers' dark noise rates are particularly low. Therefore IceCube can also detect large numbers of MeV neutrinos by observing a collective rise in all photo- multiplier rates on top of the dark noise. In the case of a supernova at the galactic center, IceCube's sensitivity matches that of a background free megaton-scale supernova search experiment and decreases to 20 and 6 standard deviations for star explosions at the galactic edge (30 kpc) and the Large Magellanic Cloud (50 kpc), respectively. © Società Italiana di Fisica. SCOPUS: cp.p info:eu-repo/semantics/published Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic South pole South pole DI-fusion : dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Antarctic South Pole |
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The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, situated at the geographic South Pole, was completed in December 2010. A lattice of 5160 photomultiplier tubes monitors one cubic kilometer of deep Antarctic ice in order to detect neutrinos via Cherenkov photons emitted by charged by-products of their interaction in matter. We report on IceCube's response to MeV neutrinos generated by core-collapse supernova explosions of nearby massive stars. This unique telescope was designed to detect energies greater than 100GeV. Due to subfreezing ice temperatures, the photomultipliers' dark noise rates are particularly low. Therefore IceCube can also detect large numbers of MeV neutrinos by observing a collective rise in all photo- multiplier rates on top of the dark noise. In the case of a supernova at the galactic center, IceCube's sensitivity matches that of a background free megaton-scale supernova search experiment and decreases to 20 and 6 standard deviations for star explosions at the galactic edge (30 kpc) and the Large Magellanic Cloud (50 kpc), respectively. © Società Italiana di Fisica. SCOPUS: cp.p info:eu-repo/semantics/published |
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Supernova neutrino detection with IceCube |
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