Sensitivity to Supernovae Average ${\nu }_x$ Temperature with Neutral Current Interactions in DUNE

Abstract

We explore a novel method for measuring the average temperature of the ${\nu }_x$ component in Type-II core-collapse supernovae. By measuring neutral current incoherent neutrino-Argon interactions in DUNE we can obtain spectral information for the combination of all active neutrino species. Combining this all-neutrino spectral information with detailed charged current measurements of the electron neutrino and electron anti-neutrino fluxes from DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande, we can infer the average temperature for the remaining neutrino species in the ${\nu }_x$ component to within a factor two for most cases and to 30% for a small range of average ${\nu }_x$ temperatures. Due to the limited energy range of the emitted photons from incoherent neutral current interactions on Argon, the ${\nu }_x$ temperature reconstruction demonstrates a degeneracy in the one and two sigma credible regions. Furthermore, while large uncertainties on the NC cross-section penalize this measurement, we examined the efficacy of constraining NC cross-section uncertainties on improving ${\nu }_x$ measurements. We found that if additional measurements of B(M1$\uparrow$) 1${}^{+}$ excited state transitions in Argon are able to reduce correlated cross section uncertainties from 15% to 7%, the size of the $1\sigma$ allowed regions for $T_{{\nu }_x}$ becomes sample size limited, and approaches the case where there are no uncertainties on the cross-section.

9 pages, 13 figures

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