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Published April 8, 1996 | public
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Signal for supernova νμ and ντ neutrinos in water Čerenkov detectors

Abstract

We suggest that photons with energies between 5 and 10 MeV, generated by the ( ν,ν′pγ) and ( ν,ν′nγ) reactions on 16O, constitute a signal which allows a unique identification of supernova νμ and ντ neutrinos in water Čerenkov detectors. We calculate the yield of such γ events and estimate that a few hundred of them would be detected in Superkamiokande for a supernova at 10 kpc distance.

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©1996 The American Physical Society. Received 27 November 1995. We are grateful to F.-K. Thielemann for providing us with his statistical model code SMOKER. We thank Y.-Z. Qian and F.-K. Thielemann for helpful discussions. This work was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (Grants No. PHY94-12818 and No. PHY94-20470), by the U.S. Department of Energy (Contract No. DEFG03-88ER-40397), and by the Swiss Nationalfonds.

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