Conveners
Low Energy Neutrinos: (Room 2)
- Luca Stanco (PD)
- Chiara Sirignano (PD)
Low Energy Neutrinos: (Room 2)
- Chiara Sirignano (PD)
- Marco Grassi (University of Padova - INFN)
Low Energy Neutrinos: (Room 2)
- Fabio Pupilli (PD)
- Andrea Longhin (PD)
Low Energy Neutrinos: (Room 2)
- Mathieu Lamoureux (INFN Padova)
- Gianmaria Collazuol (PD)
The eV-scale sterile neutrino has been proposed to explain some anomalous results in experiments,such as the deficit of reactor neutrino fluxes and the excess of $\bar{\nu}_\mu\to\bar{\nu}_e$ in LSND. This hypothesis can be tested by future core-collapse supernova neutrino detection independently since the active-sterile mixing scheme affects the flavor conversion of neutrinos inside the...
Core-collapse supernovae are among the most magnificent events in the observable universe. They produce many of the chemical elements necessary for life to exist and their remnants—neutron stars and black holes—are interesting astrophysical objects in their own right. However, despite millennia of observations and almost a century of astrophysical study, the explosion mechanism of...
The XENONnT detector recently started its commissioning phase at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. Utilizing 5.9 tonnes of liquid xenon (LXe) as active target and designed for a high level of background reduction, it will greatly improve the results of its predecessor, XENON1T. Although primarily a dark matter (DM) detector whose main channel is the direct detection of Weakly Interacting...
The “solar metallicity problem” is one of the most long-standing puzzles in solar physics. It consists in the discrepancy between several Sun physical properties predicted by solar models using updated metal abundances from spectroscopy (low-metallicity scenario, LZ-SSM), and those inferred from helioseismology, which favours a higher metal content (high-metallicity scenario, HZ-SSM). The...
Recently the first direct observation of CNO neutrinos was achieved with a high statistical significance. This challending observation was made using the highly radiopure liquid-scintillator detector Borexino located in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. The spectral shape of CNO neutrino interactions in the liquid scintillator of the Borexino detector is very similar to that of...
Borexino is an experiment designed and constructed for real-time detection of low energy solar neutrinos. It is installed at the underground Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (L’Aquila, Italy) and started taking data in May 2007. Today, the detector is characterized by an extreme and unique radiopurity. The Borexino collaboration has recently published the first direct measurement of the CNO...
Solar neutrino experiments have had great success in furthering our understanding of the neutrino sector and the Sun. Experiments like BOREXINO, KamLAND, and SuperKamiokande are also sensitive to antineutrino fluxes at the level of sub per-mille of the B8 neutrino flux. We explore this in our work to derive constraints on a model of decaying sterile neutrinos, recently proposed as a solution...
Observation of Supernovae through their neutrino emission is a major fundamental point to understand both supernovae dynamics and neutrino physical properties. JUNO is a multi- purpose neutrino experiment with a 20 kton liquid scintillator detector under construction in Jiangmen, China. The main aim of the experiment is to determine neutrino mass hierarchy by precisely measuring the energy...
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) will play an essential role in detecting neutrinos from core-collapse supernova (CCSN). Designed with a 20 kt liquid scintillator detector, JUNO has capability to register all flavors of O(10MeV) supernova burst neutrinos with several channels. Even the O(1 MeV) pre-supernova neutrinos from the advanced stages of stellar evolution are...
We explore the evolution of a select grid of solar metallicity stellar models from their pre-main sequence phase to near their final fates in a neutrino Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, where the neutrino luminosity replaces the traditional photon luminosity. Using a calibrated MESA solar model for the solar neutrino luminosity ($L_{\nu,\odot}$ = 0.02398 $\cdot$ $L_{\gamma,\odot}$ = 9.1795...
Neutrinos have played a key role in astrophysics, from the characterization of nuclear fusion processes in the Sun to the observation of supernova SN1987A and multiple extragalactic events. The Super-Kamiokande experiment has played a major part in past in these astrophysical studies by investigating low energy O(10)MeV neutrinos and currently exhibits the best sensitivity to the diffuse...
We all know that in the dense anisotropic interior of the star, neutrino- neutrino forward-scattering can lead to fast collective neutrino oscillations, which has striking consequences on flavor dependent neutrino emission and can be crucial for the evolution of a supernova and its neutrino signal. Although the triggering and initial growth of fast oscillations are understood, owing to its...
While the galactic core is 25,000 light years away but the number of stars there is immense making it the 2nd brightest neutrino source in the sky other than our Sun. The collection power of a gravitational Lens using our Sun is the most efficient way to focus this and unlike the light gravitational lens at 500 AU since the neutrino has mass its expected location is 20 to 40 AU, reachable with...
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory experiment (SNO) has performed a variety of measurements of neutrino and cosmic ray interactions, including the first observation of solar neutrino flavor change that confirmed that neutrinos have mass. Several new analyses using the SNO dataset collected between 1999 and 2006 have recently been completed, including tests of Lorentz invariance, constraints on...
We present a phenomenological concordance scenario with a relativistic jet for the Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) AT2019dsg, which has been proposed as source of the astrophysical neutrino event IceCube-191001A. Noting that AT2019dsg is one of the brightest (and few) TDEs observed in X-rays, in our work we connect the neutrino production with the X-rays: an expanding cocoon causes the...
The Borexino detector, located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, is a liquid scintillator detector with a primary goal to measure solar neutrinos. The sub-dominant $\textrm{CNO}$ cycle in the Sun is assumed to be the main energy production mechanism in heavier stars. The existence of this fusion process in Nature has been recently confirmed by Borexino (5$\sigma$ C.L.) for...
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) features a 20 kt multi-purpose underground liquid scintillator sphere as its main detector. Some of JUNO's features make it an excellent experiment for $^8$B solar neutrino measurements, such as its low-energy threshold, its high energy resolution compared to water Cherenkov detectors, and its much large target mass compared to previous...
Advances in dark matter detection call for even more massive underground experiments than state-of-the-art. I will illustrate how such experiments can act as unique telescopes for exploring neutrino astronomy. As I will show, using neutrinos, future dark matter experiments could potentially offer new insights into forecast of supernovae as well as the origin of supermassive black holes...
