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Neutrinos in Astrophysics and Cosmology - INFN Sezione di Ferrara

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IceCube as a Supernova Neutr<strong>in</strong>o Detector<br />

Each optical module (OM) picks up<br />

Cherenkov light from its neighborhood.<br />

SN appears as “correlated correlated noise”. noise<br />

~ 300<br />

Cherenkov<br />

photons<br />

per OM<br />

from a SN<br />

at 10 kpc<br />

Noise<br />

per OM<br />

< 500 Hz<br />

IceCube SN signal at 10 kpc, kpc,<br />

based<br />

on a numerical Livermore model<br />

[Dighe Dighe, , Keil & Raffelt, Raffelt,<br />

hep-ph/0303210]<br />

hep ph/0303210]<br />

Georg Raffelt, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München, Germany IDAPP 2d Meet<strong>in</strong>g, 12-13 May 2006, <strong>Ferrara</strong>, Italy

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