Speaker
Joseph Smolsky
(MIT)
Description
Supernovae neutrinos serve as a direct probe of stellar interiors under extreme conditions. These neutrinos carry information important to open questions such as: the supernovae shock breakout mechanism, the stiffness of the nuclear equation of state, neutrino oscillation parameters and mass hierarchy, and much more. The next galactic supernova could produce hundreds to thousands of neutrino events in detectors such as KamLAND, a 1 kiloton liquid scintillator neutrino detector. We have implemented KamLAND within the SNOwGLoBES and snewpy framework and are now using it to disentangle different SN models. This work and a re-investigation of the proton elastic scattering detection channel will be presented.
Primary author
Joseph Smolsky
(MIT)
