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Extending the obser...
Extending the observational reach of core-collapse supernovae for IceCube using high-energy neutrinos
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- Valtonen-Mattila, Nora (författare)
- Uppsala universitet,Högenergifysik
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- O'Sullivan, Erin (preses)
- Uppsala universitet,Högenergifysik
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- Linden, Timothy (opponent)
- Stockholm University, Department of Physics
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- Uppsala : Uppsala universitet, 2022
- Engelska 111 s.
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Abstract
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- Neutrino telescopes such as IceCube monitor for low-energy neutrinos O(10 MeV) produced in nuclear processes during core-collapse in supernovae. The detection horizon to the neutrino burst is 50 kpc, the distance to the Magellanic Clouds. However, this limits the number of supernovae accessible through low-energy neutrino detection, as the Galactic rate is only 2 per century. Some models predict the production of high-energy O(>GeV) neutrinos through acceleration mechanisms, such as the ejecta colliding with the circumstellar material or relativistic jets in the stellar envelope. This thesis examines how these high-energy neutrinos could be exploited with neutrino telescopes like IceCube to extend the detection horizon to core-collapse supernovae past the Magellanic clouds. To examine the detection horizon for IceCube, we use two data samples, one utilizing muon tracks which provide good sensitivity in the northern sky, and the other all flavor starting events, which provide good sensitivity in the southern sky. We demonstrate that extending the reach past 50 kpc and well into the 10s of Mpc is possible, where the expected rate is more than two core-collapse supernovae per year.
Ämnesord
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Fysik -- Subatomär fysik (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Physical Sciences -- Subatomic Physics (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Fysik -- Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Physical Sciences -- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Neutrino physics
- Neutrino astrophysics
- Supernovae
- Core-collapse supernovae
- Particle astrophysics
- Fysik
- Physics
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