Integrating Liquid Noble Dark Matter Detectors into the SuperNova Early Warning System
ORAL
Abstract
During a stellar core collapse, a large flux of neutrinos (1-100 MeV) is produced, escaping the core before any light can. If detected, these neutrinos can play a crucial role in providing both preliminary evidence of a stellar collapse, and an understanding of the mechanisms behind it. The SuperNova Early Warning System 2.0 (SNEWS 2.0) is a network of neutrino detectors around the globe that aim at detecting these neutrinos. Armed with a diverse array of neutrino detectors, SNEWS 2.0 can triangulate a supernova’s direction and notify astronomers up to one day before any photons reach Earth. With the discovery of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CE$\nu$NS) proving that low-energy nuclear scatterings are observable within noble liquid detectors, next generation of ultra-sensitive dark matter detectors will be suitable for observing the neutrinos from a supernova. Currently SNEWS 2.0 uses a simulation package called SuperNova Observatories with GLoBES (SNOwGLoBES) for understanding detector responses to supernova neutrino interactions. Work done to incorporate the CE$\nu$NS interaction and the next generation liquid noble dark matter detectors into the current simulation framework will be presented.
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