Speaker
Dr
Anthony Leisos
(Hellenic Open University School of Science & Technology)
Description
We investigate the potential of a Very Large Volume Underwater Neutrino Telescope to observe Super Nova explosions within our Galaxy. The intense neutrino burst emitted in a SN explosion results in a large number of MeV neutrinos in the vicinity of the Neutrino Telescope which can be detected (mainly) via the reaction $\bar{\nu}_e +p \rightarrow e^{+}+n$. For the simulation study we have used the HOURS package assuming the anti electron neutrino flux of the Garching model for SN explosions and an underwater Neutrino Telescope with 6000 direction sensitive Optical Modules each containing 31 small PMTs. Multiple Coincidences between the photomultiplier tubes of the same Optical Module are used to suppress the noise produced by $K^{40}$ decays and to establish a statistical significant measurement of the neutrino flux.
Primary author
Dr
Anthony Leisos
(Hellenic Open University School of Science & Technology)
Co-authors
Dr
Apostolos Tsirigotis
(Physics Laboratory, School of Science & Technology, Hellenic Open University)
Prof.
Spyros Tzamarias
(Hellenic Open University)
