Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2008-02-11
JCAP 0812:006,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
28 pages, 37 figures, version with some improvements in the text and some new references, conclusions unchanged, to appear in
Scientific paper
10.1088/1475-7516/2008/12/006
We reexamine the possibility of reconstructing the initial fluxes of supernova neutrinos emitted in a future core-collapse galactic supernova explosion and detected in a Megaton-sized water Cherenkov detector. A novel key element in our method is the inclusion, in addition to the total and the average energies of each neutrino species, of a "pinching" parameter characterizing the width of the distribution as a fit parameter. We uncover in this case a continuous degeneracy in the reconstructed parameters of supernova neutrino fluxes at the neutrinosphere. We analyze in detail the features of this degeneracy and show how it occurs irrespective of the parametrization used for the distribution function. Given that this degeneracy is real we briefly comment on possible steps towards resolving it, which necessarily requires going beyond the setting presented here.
Minakata Hisakazu
Nunokawa Hiroshi
Tomas Ricard
Valle Jose W. F.
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