Search for core-collapse supernovae using the MiniBooNE neutrino detector

Aguilar-Arevalo, A. A.; Anderson, Carl E.; Bazarko, A. O.; Brice, S. J.; Brown, Bruce; Bugel, L.; Cao, Junpeng; Coney, L.; Conrad, J. M.; Cox, D. C.; Curioni, A.; Djurcic, Z.; Finley, D. A.; Fisher, M.; Fleming, B. T.; Ford, R.; García, F.; Garvey, G. T.; Grange, Joseph; Green, C.; Green, J. A.; Hart, T.; Hawker, E.; Imlay, R.; Johnson, R. A.; Karagiorgi, G.; Kasper, P.; Katori, T.; Kobilarcik, T.; Kourbanis, I.; Koutsoliotas, S.; Laird, E.; Linden, S. K.; Link, J. M.; Liu, Y.; Louis, W. C.; Mahn, Kendall; Marsh, W.; Mauger, C.; McGary, V. T.; McGregor, G.; Metcalf, W.; Meyers, P. D.; Mills, F.; Mills, G. B.; Monroe, J.; Moore, C. D.; Mousseau, J.; Nelson, Robert H.; Nienaber, P.; Nowak, J.; Osmanov, B.; Ouedraogo, S.; Patterson, R. B.; Pavlović, Ž.; Perevalov, D.; Polly, C. C.; Prebys, E.; Raaf, J. L.; Ray, H.; Roe, B. P.; Russell, A. D.; Sandberg, V. D.; Schirato, R.; Schmitz, D.; Shaevitz, M. H.; Shoemaker, F. C.; Smith, D.; Soderberg, M.; Sorel, M.; Spentzouris, P.; Spitz, J.; Stancu, I.; Stefanski, R. J.; Sung, M.; Tanaka, Hirohisa; Tayloe, R.; Tzanov, M.; Water, R. G. Van de; Wascko, M. O.; White, D. H.; Wilking, M. J.; Yang, H. J.; Zeller, G. P.; Zimmerman, E. D.

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“…They include neutrino quasi-elastic scattering, neutral current elastic scattering, resonant single pion production and coherent pion production. Recent measurements of these processes involve data from MiniBooNE [54][55][56], NOMAD [57] and MINERνA [58], among others. Constraints on new physics from these processes however are nonexistent.…”

Section: Limits From Neutrino Scattering: Ceνnsmentioning

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Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering in multi-ton scale dark matter experiments: classification of vector and scalar interactions new physics signals

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Dutta

Liao

et al. 2019

J. High Energ. Phys.

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We classify new physics signals in coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEνNS) processes induced by 8 B solar neutrinos in multi-ton xenon dark matter (DM) detectors. Our analysis focuses on vector and scalar interactions in the effective and light mediator limits after considering the constraints emerging from the recent COHERENT data and neutrino masses. In both cases we identify a region where measurements of the event spectrum alone suffice to establish whether the new physics signal is related with vector or scalar couplings. We identify as well a region where measurements of the recoil spectrum are required so to establish the nature of the new interaction, and categorize the spectral features that enable distinguishing the vector from the scalar case. We demonstrate that measurements of the isospin nature of the new interaction and thereby removal of isospin related degeneracies are possible by combining independent measurements from two different detectors. We also comment on the status of searches for vector and scalar interactions for on-going multi-ton year xenon experiments.

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Section: Limits From Neutrino Scattering: Ceνnsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering in multi-ton scale dark matter experiments: classification of vector and scalar interactions new physics signals

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Dutta

Liao

et al. 2019

J. High Energ. Phys.

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“…In terrestrial experiments aimed at neutrino studies through ν-nucleus interactions (MiniBooNE [23,24], COBRA [4,25], MOON [3,26], CUORE [27,28] and other experiments [29,30]), the features of the neutrino flux generated and emitted by a specific neutrino source, astrophysical ν sources (supernova, solar, Earth neutrinos) or laboratory ν sources (accelerated β-decay ions in storage rings [15,16], pion-muon decay at rest, e.g., at Fermilab [24]), are encoded on the nuclear response of the detector material. On the other hand, theoretically the nuclear responses of the ν detector to the energy spectra of the observed neutrino flux could be simulated by convoluted (folded) cross sections obtained by using realistic description for the ν beam of the studied neutrino source [26,[31][32][33].…”

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Nuclear responses of64,66Zn isotopes to supernova neutrinos

Tsakstara

Kosmas

2012

Phys. Rev. C

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Nuclear responses to energy spectra of supernova (SN) neutrinos are studied by folding original ν-nucleus cross sections calculated in the context of the quasiparticle random-phase approximation using realistic two-body forces. To this purpose, we employ two-parameter neutrino-energy distributions of Fermi-Dirac and power-law shapes for various SN neutrino scenarios. As concrete examples of promising neutrino detectors we have chosen the 64,66 Zn isotopes, contents of (i) the semiconductor CdZnTe (COBRA experiment) and (ii) the crystal scintillators ZnMoO 4 and ZnWO 4 . These materials are quite advantageous for measuring double-β-decay events and for potential use in studying current neutrino physics issues. We concentrate on the evaluation of folded differential cross sections, [dσ (ω)/dω] fold , and flux-averaged cumulative cross sections, [dσ (ω)/dω] cum fold , as well as total cross sections, σ tot , of the above Zn isotopes by adopting several realistic SN neutrino models parametrized by the neutrino temperature or the mean neutrino energy and the width of the aforementioned distributions.

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“…The approach used in the experimental analyses of MiniBooNE and T2K [11,12] is a reconstruction procedure based on the kinematics of the charged final state lepton…”

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“…For the neutrino oscillation program in experiments such as e.g. T2K [11,12], MiniBooNE [3], MicroBooNE [5] and DUNE [6] the neutrino nucleus cross section is the essential ingredient that connects the experimentally accessible variables to the neutrino arXiv:1906.08191v1 [nucl-th] 19 Jun 2019 energy that cannot be directly measured. The cross section and its modeling hence provide the key to the reconstruction of the incoming neutrino's energy.…”

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Low-energy neutrino scattering in experiment and astrophysics

Jachowicz

Dessel

Nikolakopoulos

2019

J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys.

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We review the relevance of neutrino-nucleus interactions at energy transfers below 100 MeV for accelerator-based experiments, experiments at lower energies and for astrophysical neutrinos. The impact of low-energy scattering processes in the energy reconstruction analysis of oscillation experiments is investigated. We discuss the modeling of coherent scattering processes and compare its strength to that of inelastic interactions. The presented results are obtained within a continuum random phase approximation approach.

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Search for core-collapse supernovae using the MiniBooNE neutrino detector

Abstract: corresponding to 98% live time for collection. We set a limit on the core-collapse supernova rate out to a distance of 13.4 kpc to be less than 0.69 supernovae per year at 90% C.L.

Cited by 122 publications

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Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering in multi-ton scale dark matter experiments: classification of vector and scalar interactions new physics signals

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering in multi-ton scale dark matter experiments: classification of vector and scalar interactions new physics signals

Nuclear responses of64,66Zn isotopes to supernova neutrinos

Low-energy neutrino scattering in experiment and astrophysics

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