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Description
The LEGEND Collaboration advances an experimental program to search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of $^{76}$Ge.
It has recently released the first results on the decay search based on 61 kg yr of data collected by the first stage of the experiment, LEGEND-200. It operates high-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors enriched in $^{76}$Ge immersed in a cryostat filled with pure liquid argon. The cryostat is deployed in a tank filled with 590 m$^3$ of purified
water, instrumented with photomultiplier tubes to tag cosmic-ray induced muon events, and to passively shield the detectors against environmental radioactivity.
The second stage of the experiment, LEGEND-1000, aims to operate up to one ton of HPGe detectors enriched in $^{76}$Ge with different proposals to optimize the water tank features.
In this presentation, we explore the detection capabilities and sensitivity of the LEGEND muon veto in both phases of the experiment to the neutrino flux from core-collapse supernovae. The ability to identify the time of black hole formation is also discussed.
This work is supported by the U.S. DOE, and the NSF, the LANL, ORNL and LBNL LDRD programs; the European ERC and Horizon programs; the German DFG, BMBF, and MPG; the Italian INFN; the Polish NCN and MNiSW; the Czech MEYS; the Slovak RDA; the Swiss SNF; the UK STFC; the Canadian NSERC and CFI; the LNGS and SURF facilities.
| Neutrino Properties | Neutrinoless double beta decay |
|---|---|
| Neutrino Telescopes & Multi-messenger | Supernova neutrinos |
| Neutrino Theory & Cosmology | - |
| Data Science and Detector R&D | Cherenkov veto network at LNGS |
