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What Stubs and Sparkles In Vast Vats of Liquid Will Tell Us About Exploding Stars

Date

Friday March 11, 2022
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Location

Zoom
Event Category
Colloquia
Departmental

Kate Scholberg
Duke University

Abstract

When a massive star collapses at the end of its life, nearly all of the gravitational binding energy of the resulting compact remnant is released in the form of a brilliant burst of neutrinos. I will discuss the nature of the core-collapse neutrino burst and what we can learn about particle physics and about astrophysics from the detection of these neutrinos. I will cover supernova neutrino detection techniques in general, current supernova neutrino detectors, and prospects for specific future experiments.