Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Feb 2011
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Astrophysics and Space Sciences Transactions, Volume 7, Issue 1, 2011, pp.49-52
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
The main goal of the Large Volume Detector (LVD), in the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratory (Italy), is the study of neutrino bursts from gravitational stellar collapses in the Milky Way. Both the detector and the data analysis procedure have been actually optimized for this purpose. Moreover the modularity of the apparatus allows to obtain a duty cycle that is very close to 100%, so that the experiment is continuously monitoring the Galaxy.
The search for Supernova neutrino signal is performed online, within fixed duration time windows (20 s), and offline with variable duration time windows from few ms up to 200 s. In both cases, LVD is able to disentangle a cluster of neutrino signals from the background fluctuations, and its sensitivity extends to the whole Galaxy.
No candidates have been detected during almost 18 years of observation (6013 days of lifetime): the resulting 90% c.l. upper limit to the rate of gravitational stellar collapses in the Galaxy is 0.14 events/year. Detector performances, search method and data results are here reported.
Molinario Andrea
Vigorito Carlo
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