The Supernova Relic Neutrino Backgrounds at KamLAND and Super-Kamiokande

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2003-12-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312346v2

JCAP 0403 (2004) 007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Figure added, improved discussion of neutrino mixing, along with a new lower bound to the expected flux

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2004/03/007

We calculate the Supernova Relic Neutrino (SRN) background flux for the KamLAND and Super-Kamiokande (SK) detectors, motivated by the reduction in background at SK and new results for the star formation history (e.g., from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)). Our best estimate for the flux at SK is slightly below, but very close to the current SK upper limit. The SK upper limit is already inconsistent with a range of star formation histories allowed by the SDSS data. We estimate that the SRN background should be detected (at 1-sigma) at SK with a total of about 9 years (including the existing 4 years) of data. While KamLAND is a much smaller detector compared to SK, it profits from being practically background-free and from its sensitivity to the lower energy supernova neutrinos. KamLAND could make a 1-sigma detection of the SRN with a total of about 5 years of data. Given the small expected SRN event rate, we also consider the detection of the SRN in a modified SK detector with a lower threshold and reduced background where the time to detection can be reduced by a factor of 10 relative to the existing SK estimate.

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