Supernova Neutrino Directionality
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چکیده
In this research project, we try to find out how well we can point to core-collapse supernova by detecting supernova neutrino events in a water detector, and to investigate improvement of the pointing algorithm. A refined model is created of supernova neutrinos in which scattered electron events and 30 times more positron events are generated after a burst of supernova neutrinos has propagated through the detector. We tested one old fitting function proposed in 2003 and one new fitting function proposed by us. In most test cases, our model can perform better than the original model.
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