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Neutrino Signatures In Terrestrial Detectors From Two- And Three-Dimensional Core-Collapse Supernovae Simulations, Tanner Brooks Devotie

Masters Theses

Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are driven by neutrino emission and are the most prodigious sources of neutrinos in the Universe. Importantly, the neutrino radiation from CCSNe is emitted from deep in the explosion and can provide information about physical processes taking place in the newly-born neutron star at the heart of the event. We examine the four-flavor (i.e. ν_e, ν_e, ν_x and ν_x) [electron, muon and tau neutrinos along with their anti-matter counterparts] signature of CCSNe neutrino emission in various neutrino detector types. We use data from the multidimensional Chimera (Lentz et al., 2015) …