Acta Physica Polonica B

Vol. 35, No. 3, March 2004, page 1215


Detection of Supernova Neutrinos

B. Bekman, J. Holeczek, J. Kisiel

Matter effects on neutrino oscillations in both, a supernova and the Earth, change the observed supernova neutrino spectra. We calculate the expected number of supernova neutrino interactions for ICARUS, SK and SNO detectors as a function of the distance which they traveled in the Earth. Calculations are performed for supernova type II at 10 kpc from the Earth, using standard supernova neutrino fluxes described by thermal Fermi--Dirac distributions and the PREM I Earth matter density profile.

PACS numbers: 13.15.+g, 14.60.Pq, 97.60.Bw


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