Observe Supernova Neutrinos with JUNO

ORAL

Abstract

Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a 20-kton liquid scintillator detector whose primary scientific goal is to measure neutrino mass ordering. With its large fiducial mass and excellent energy resolution, JUNO can be a powerful neutrino telescope observing astrophysical neutrinos. For example, for neutrinos from a typical core collapse supernova at 10 kpc, JUNO can detect $\textasciitilde 5000$ electron-antineutrinos through inverse beta decay, $\textasciitilde 2000$ all flavor neutrinos through neutrino-proton elastic scattering (neutral current interaction), and $\textasciitilde 300$ electron-neutrino through neutrino-electron elastic scattering and neutrino interaction with carbon-12 nucleus. The high statistics and all-flavor detection of supernova neutrinos allow detailed measurements on supernova physics and neutrino properties.

Authors

  • Ziping Ye

    Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ