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Alex Y Wen1, Carlos A Argüelles1, Ali Kheirandish2,3
1Department of Physics and Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Abstract:
We show that ATLAS, a collider detector, can measure the flux of high-energy supernova neutrinos, which can be produced from days to months after the explosion. Using Monte Carlo simulations for predicted fluxes, we find at most O(0.1-1) starting events and O(10-100) throughgoing events from a supernova 10 kpc away. Possible Galactic supernovae from Betelgeuse and Eta Carinae are further analyzed as demonstrative examples. We argue that, even with limited statistics, ATLAS has the ability to discriminate among flavors and between neutrinos and antineutrinos, making it a unique neutrino observatory so far unmatched in this capability.
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