June 22, 2026 to July 18, 2026
Lead/Deadwood Middle School
US/Mountain timezone

Supernova neutrino detection at DUNE: how to obtain precision and how to probe ultralight dark matter

Jul 15, 2026, 9:00 AM
45m
Lead-Deadwood Middle School

Lead-Deadwood Middle School

Speaker

Tim Cheng

Description

Speaker: Ting Cheng
Abstract: The DUNE far detector offers a unique, flavor- and helicity-tagged view of neutrinos from a Galactic core-collapse supernova, with particular sensitivity to the supernova $\nu_e$ spectrum. In this talk, I will first discuss how to obtain precision measurements of this spectrum using a data-driven strategy that calibrates the uncertain $\nu_e$-argon cross section with solar and muon-decay-at-rest neutrinos as standard candles. With this helicity tagging, complementary to the antineutrino sensitivity of other supernova detectors through inverse beta decay, we can measure neutrino-antineutrino asymmetries as a probe of ultralight vector dark matter coupled to lepton number, such as $U(1){B-L}$ or $U(1){L_i-L_j}$.

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