Neutrinos in Astrophysics and Cosmology - INFN Sezione di Ferrara
Neutrinos in Astrophysics and Cosmology - INFN Sezione di Ferrara
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