Neutrinos as astrophysical probes

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2003-11-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0311256v1

Surveys High Energ.Phys. 19 (2004) 35-54

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages, 3 figures. To appear in "Surveys in High energy Physics"

Scientific paper

10.1080/0142241042000198877

The aim of these notes is to provide a brief review of the topic of neutrino astronomy and in particular of neutrinos from core collapse supernovae. They are addressed to a curious reader, beginning to work in a multidisciplinary area that involves experimental neutrino physics, astrophysics, nuclear physics and particle physics phenomenology. After an introduction to the methods and goals of neutrinos astronomy, we focus on core collapse supernovae, as (one of) the most promising astrophysical source of neutrinos. The first part is organized almost as a tale, the last part is a bit more technical. We discuss the impact of flavor oscillations on the supernova neutrino signal (=the change of perspective due to recent achievements) and consider one specific example of signal in detail. This shows that effects of oscillations are important, but astrophysical uncertainties should be thought as an essential systematics for a correct interpretation of future experimental data. Three appendices corroborate the text with further details and some basics on flavor oscillations; but no attempt of a complete bibliographical survey is done (in practice, we selected a few references that we believe are useful for a `modern' introduction to the subject. We suggest the use of public databases for papers as SPIRES or NASA/ESO or for experiments as SPIRES or PaNAGIC to get a more complete information).

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