Feasibility study of neutrino detection by core-collapse Supernovae at the JUNO Observatory

Abstract

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) (see http://juno.ihep.cas.cn) is a multipurpose neutrino experiment designed to determine neutrino mass hierarchy and measure oscillation parameters by detecting reactor neutrinos from the Yangjiang and Taishan Nuclear Power Plants, observe SuperNova (SN) neutrinos, study the atmospheric, solar neutrinos and geo-neutrinos and perform exotic searches, with a 20-thousand-ton liquid scintillator detector of at 700-meter deep underground. A feasibility study of neutrino detection by core-collapse Supernovae, especially in reconstructing of multi-flavour SN neutrino energy spectra, is the main goal of this proposal of PH.D. thesis with the opportunity to analyse the first data measured by the Observatory.

Keywords
computer simulation
Modeling
neutrino telescope
science and technology
semiconductors
ERC sector(s)
PE Physical Sciences and Engineering
Fields of study
Name supervisor
Rossella Caruso
E-mail
rossella.caruso@dfa.unict.it
Name of Department/Faculty/School
Department of Physics and Astronomy "Ettore Majorana"
Name of the host University
University of Catania (UNICT)
EUNICE partner e-mail of destination Research
eunice@unict.it
Country
Italy
Thesis level
PhD
Minimal language knowledge requisite
English B1
Thesis mode
Hybrid
Start date
Length of the research internship
12 months
Financial support available (other than E+)
Maybe