Conveners
Supernova & Solar Neutrinos - Parallel
- Gleb Sinev (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)
Traditionally, the study of solar and supernova neutrinos served a dual purpose. Solar neutrino measurements were the first hint of neutrino flavor physics. Although solar neutrino flavor conversion is now well understood, solar neutrinos still offer a unique environment to study neutrino properties while they also allow to peer into the inside of a star. Similarly, supernova neutrinos probe...
This talk will provide an overview of prospects for experimental measurements of astrophysical neutrinos. A brief motivation will be given, with a focus on low-energy solar neutrinos, and a range of experimental approaches will be discussed. The sensitivity of future detectors -- both those under construction and those proposed -- will be presented, with focus on scintillation-based...
Over the past decade state-of-the-art computer simulations of core-collapse supernovae by multiple modeling groups have converged on a mechanism for successful explosions based upon a combination of neutrino heating and turbulence. The neutrinos, gravitational waves and electromagnetic messages that we shall detect from the next supernova in the Milky Way will allow us to test this paradigm in...
Neutrinos are produced copiously during a star's lifetime and offer a probe to understand the dynamics within the stellar interior
where optical observation fails. Neutrinos produced from fussion reactions within the sun have been detected and studied on Earth
since the Homestake experiment and subsequently facilitated the discovery of neutrino oscillations. Though solar neutrinos...
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is sensitive not only to dark matter Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) interactions, but also to those of low-energy neutrinos. In particular, 8B (Boron-8) solar neutrinos from natural nuclear fusion processes in our Sun should lead to dozens of events above threshold over the lifetime of LZ, appearing in the same region of event-type parameter space as...
