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Supernova Physics at DUNE

Authors :
Ankowski, Artur
Beacom, John
Benhar, Omar
Chen, Sun
Cherry, John
Cui, Yanou
Friedland, Alexander
Gil-Botella, Ines
Haghighat, Alireza
Horiuchi, Shunsaku
Huber, Patrick
Kneller, James
Laha, Ranjan
Li, Shirley
Link, Jonathan
Lovato, Alessandro
Macias, Oscar
Mariani, Camillo
Mezzacappa, Anthony
O'Connor, Evan
O'Sullivan, Erin
Rubbia, Andre
Scholberg, Kate
Takeuchi, Tatsu
Publication Year :
2016

Abstract

The DUNE/LBNF program aims to address key questions in neutrino physics and astroparticle physics. Realizing DUNE's potential to reconstruct low-energy particles in the 10-100 MeV energy range will bring significant benefits for all DUNE's science goals. In neutrino physics, low-energy sensitivity will improve neutrino energy reconstruction in the GeV range relevant for the kinematics of DUNE's long-baseline oscillation program. In astroparticle physics, low-energy capabilities will make DUNE's far detectors the world's best apparatus for studying the electron-neutrino flux from a supernova. This will open a new window to unrivaled studies of the dynamics and neutronization of a star's central core in real time, the potential discovery of the neutrino mass hierarchy, provide new sensitivity to physics beyond the Standard Model, and evidence of neutrino quantum-coherence effects. The same capabilities will also provide new sensitivity to `boosted dark matter' models that are not observable in traditional direct dark matter detectors.<br />Comment: Summary of workshop "Supernova Physics at DUNE" held at Virginia Tech; for more details, see, http://cnp.phys.vt.edu/SNatDUNE/

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1608.07853
Document Type :
Working Paper