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Gravitational Physics

Prospects for the observation of Supernova neutrinos in JUNO

Speaker: Michael Wurm (Mainz University)
Date: Friday 30 September 2016
Time: 11:15
Venue: Chart Room

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is currently constructed close to Kaiping in southern China. While primarily a reactor antineutrino oscillation experiment, the 20-kiloton liquid-scintillator detector serves as well as an observatory for astrophysical neutrino sources: In particular, a galactic core-collapse Supernova will result in a high-statistics signal in JUNO, featuring several thousand neutrino interactions. The resulting detailed energy, flavor and time resolved information will provide new insights in the workings of the core-collapse mechanism, the accretion phase and the neutrino cooling of the emerging proto neutron star. This talk will give an overview of the neutrino signal expected in JUNO, its implications for neutrino oscillation and core-collapse physics and the opportunities that arise in the combination of this measurement with other neutrino observations, e.g. by the antarctic IceCube neutrino telescope, or a coincident signal of gravitational waves.