Impact of cross-section uncertainties on supernova neutrino spectral parameter fitting in the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

0579118 - FZÚ 2024 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Abed Abud, A. - Abi, B. - Acciarri, R. - Filip, Peter - Kvasnička, Jiří - Lokajíček, Miloš - Pěč, Viktor - Zálešák, Jaroslav - Zuklín, Josef … Total 1317 authors
Impact of cross-section uncertainties on supernova neutrino spectral parameter fitting in the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
Physical Review D. Roč. 107, č. 11 (2023), č. článku 112012. ISSN 2470-0010. E-ISSN 2470-0029
Research Infrastructure: Fermilab-CZ II - 90113
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : DUNE * spectral * neutrino: flux * neutrino/e * absorption * sensitivity
OECD category: Particles and field physics
Impact factor: 5, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access

A primary goal of the upcoming Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is to measure the O(10)  MeV neutrinos produced by a Galactic core-collapse supernova if one should occur during the lifetime of the experiment. The liquid-argon-based detectors planned for DUNE are expected to be uniquely sensitive to the νe component of the supernova flux, enabling a wide variety of physics and astrophysics measurements. A key requirement for a correct interpretation of these measurements is a good understanding of the energy-dependent total cross section σ(Eν) for charged-current νe absorption on argon. In the context of a simulated extraction of supernova νe spectral parameters from a toy analysis, we investigate the impact of σ(Eν) modeling uncertainties on DUNE’s supernova neutrino physics sensitivity for the first time.
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