论文标题
开发超新星中微子检测的端到端模拟框架
Developing an end-to-end simulation framework of supernova neutrino detection
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论文摘要
大型恒星在生命周期结束时可以像超新星一样爆炸,释放中微子的总能量达到$ 10^{53} $ erg。此外,中微子在超新星中扮演关键角色,加热和恢复冲击波,并冷却所得的杀伤力恒星。因此,中微子探测器正在等待观察下一个银河系超新星,并且正在进行一些超新星中微子的理论模拟。尽管这些模拟主要集中在超新星反弹之后的第一秒钟上,但对中微子的超新星的唯一观察结果SN 1987a表明,中微子的发射持续超过10秒。因此,需要长期的仿真和分析工具来将理论与下一个观察进行比较。我们的研究是开发一个综合的超新星分析框架,以准备一条分析管道,以便在不久的将来处理银河系超新星观测。该框架涉及核心崩溃,弹跳和原始中子恒星冷却过程,以及以一致的方式在地球上的中微子检测。我们已经在一个维度上开发了新的长期超新星模拟,该模拟成功地爆炸并计算中微子发射长达20秒。使用此模型,我们估计超级kamiokande检测器中所得的中微子信号在10 kpc时爆炸约为1,800个事件,并在本文中讨论了其含义。我们将此结果与SN 1987a观察结果进行了比较,以测试其可靠性。
Massive stars can explode as supernovae at the end of their life cycle, releasing neutrinos whose total energy reaches $10^{53}$ erg. Moreover, neutrinos play key roles in supernovae, heating and reviving the shock wave as well as cooling the resulting protoneutron star. Therefore, neutrino detectors are waiting to observe the next galactic supernova and several theoretical simulations of supernova neutrinos are underway. While these simulation concentrate mainly on only the first one second after the supernova bounce, the only observation of a supernova with neutrinos, SN 1987A, revealed that neutrino emission lasts for more than 10 seconds. For this reason, long-time simulation and analysis tools are needed to compare theories with the next observation. Our study is to develop an integrated supernova analysis framework to prepare an analysis pipeline for treating galactic supernovae observations in the near future. This framework deals with the core-collapse, bounce and proto-neutron star cooling processes, as well as with neutrino detection on earth in a consistent manner. We have developed a new long-time supernova simulation in one dimension that explodes successfully and computes the neutrino emission for up to 20 seconds. Using this model we estimate the resulting neutrino signal in the Super-Kamiokande detector to be about 1,800 events for an explosion at 10 kpc and discuss its implications in this paper. We compare this result with the SN 1987A observation to test its reliability.