NEUTRINO DETECTION IN SALT DOMES UNDER LOFAR

Author(s):  
A. M. VAN DEN BERG
2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (supp01) ◽  
pp. 247-251
Author(s):  
A. M. VAN DEN BERG

Large volumes of natural materials are presently under study to construct a telescope, which will be used to search for ν's at the highest energies. Although these high-energy ν's have not been discovered yet, firm predictions for their existence have been made. The very origin of these high-energy ν's remains one of the burning questions in astroparticle physics. We consider the use of huge salt domes in the shallow underground of the north-eastern part of the Netherlands as a possible site for such a high-energy ν telescope. Initial measurement of the attenuation length for radio signals at 0.3 and 1.0 GHz will be reported. The physical location of the domes and the envisioned research program has a strong overlap with those of the new radio telescope LOFAR.


Nature ◽  
2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Ball
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2012 ◽  
Vol 132 (11) ◽  
pp. 742-745
Author(s):  
Hiroaki MIYAKE ◽  
Kazuaki SHIBUYA ◽  
Hiromu NAGATO
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Author(s):  
Masamitsu Mori ◽  
Yudai Suwa ◽  
Ken’ichiro Nakazato ◽  
Kohsuke Sumiyoshi ◽  
Masayuki Harada ◽  
...  

Abstract Massive stars can explode as supernovae at the end of their life cycle, releasing neutrinos whose total energy reaches 1053erg. Moreover, neutrinos play key roles in supernovae, heating and reviving the shock wave as well as cooling the resulting proto-neutron star. Therefore, neutrino detectors are waiting to observe the next galactic supernova and several theoretical simulations of supernova neutrinos are underway. While these simulation concentrate mainly on only the first one second after the supernova bounce, the only observation of a supernova with neutrinos, SN 1987A, revealed that neutrino emission lasts for more than 10 seconds. For this reason, long-time simulation and analysis tools are needed to compare theories with the next observation. Our study is to develop an integrated supernova analysis framework to prepare an analysis pipeline for treating galactic supernovae observations in the near future. This framework deals with the core-collapse, bounce and proto-neutron star cooling processes, as well as with neutrino detection on earth in a consistent manner. We have developed a new long-time supernova simulation in one dimension that explodes successfully and computes the neutrino emission for up to 20 seconds. Using this model we estimate the resulting neutrino signal in the Super-Kamiokande detector to be about 1,800 events for an explosion at 10 kpc and discuss its implications in this paper. We compare this result with the SN 1987A observation to test its reliability.


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