Search for core-collapse supernovae using the MiniBooNE neutrino detector

Authors

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares de la UNAM
C. E. Anderson, Yale University
A. O. Bazarko, Princeton University
S. J. Brice, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
B. C. Brown, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
L. Bugel, Columbia University
J. Cao, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
L. Coney, Columbia University
J. M. Conrad, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
D. C. Cox, Indiana University Bloomington
A. Curioni, Yale University
Z. Djurcic, Columbia University
D. A. Finley, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
M. Fisher, University of Florida
B. T. Fleming, Yale University
R. Ford, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
F. G. Garcia, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
G. T. Garvey, Los Alamos National Laboratory
J. Grange, University of Florida
C. Green, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
J. A. Green, Indiana University Bloomington
T. L. Hart, University of Colorado Boulder
E. Hawker, University of Cincinnati
R. Imlay, Louisiana State University
R. A. Johnson, University of Cincinnati
G. Karagiorgi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
P. Kasper, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
T. Katori, Indiana University Bloomington
T. Kobilarcik, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
I. Kourbanis, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
S. Koutsoliotas, Bucknell University
E. M. Laird, Princeton University
S. K. Linden, Yale University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-5-2010

Abstract

We present a search for core-collapse supernovae in the Milky Way galaxy, using the MiniBooNE neutrino detector. No evidence is found for core-collapse supernovae occurring in our Galaxy in the period from December 14, 2004 to July 31, 2008, corresponding to 98% live time for collection. We set a limit on the core-collapse supernova rate out to a distance of 13.4 kpc to be less than 0.69 supernovae per year at 90% C.L. © 2010 The American Physical Society.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Recommended Citation

Aguilar-Arevalo, A., Anderson, C., Bazarko, A., Brice, S., Brown, B., Bugel, L., Cao, J., Coney, L., Conrad, J., Cox, D., Curioni, A., Djurcic, Z., Finley, D., Fisher, M., Fleming, B., Ford, R., Garcia, F., Garvey, G., Grange, J., Green, C., Green, J., Hart, T., Hawker, E., Imlay, R., Johnson, R., Karagiorgi, G., Kasper, P., Katori, T., Kobilarcik, T., Kourbanis, I., Koutsoliotas, S., Laird, E., & Linden, S. (2010). Search for core-collapse supernovae using the MiniBooNE neutrino detector. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 81 (3) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.81.032001