Real time supernova neutrino burst detection with MACRO Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The MACRO experiment has been running as a supernova neutrino detector since 1989 and is sensitive to the whole galaxy since the beginning of 1992. A galactic supernova would produce some hundreds of v e events in the detector. We describe our stellar gravitational collapse online monitors and alarm system, and present the results of a search for neutrino bursts from supernovae during a period of 1.5 yr. 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.

published proceedings

  • ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS

author list (cited authors)

  • Ambrosio, M., Antolini, R., Auriemma, G., Baker, R., Baldini, A., Barbarino, G. C., ... Webb, R.

citation count

  • 18

complete list of authors

  • Ambrosio, M||Antolini, R||Auriemma, G||Baker, R||Baldini, A||Barbarino, GC||Barish, BC||Battistoni, G||Bellotti, R||Bemporad, C||Bernardini, P||Bilokon, H||Bisi, V||Bloise, C||Bower, C||Bussino, S||Campana, D||Carboni, M||Castellano, M||Cecchini, S||Cei, F||Celio, P||Chiarella, V||Corona, A||Coutu, S||De Benedictis, L||De Cataldo, G||Dekhissi, H||De Marzo, C||De Mitri, I||De Vincenzi, M||Di Credico, A||Erriquez, O||Favuzzi, C||Gray, L||Grillo, A||Guarino, F||Guarnaccia, P||Gustavino, C||Habig, A||Hanson, K||Hawthorne, A||Heinz, R||Hong, JT||Iarocci, E||Katsavounidis, E||Kearns, E||Kyriazopoulou, S||Lamanna, E||Lane, C||Levin, DS||Lipari, P||Liu, R||Longley, NP||Longo, MJ||Ludlam, G||Maaroufi, F||Mancarella, G||Mandrioli, G||Manzoor, S||Neri, AM||Marini, A||Martello, D||Marzari-Chiesa, A||Mazziotta, MN||Mazzotta, C||Michael, DG||Mikheyev, S||Miller, L||Monacelli, P||Montaruli, T||Monteno, M||Mufson, S||Musser, J||Nicolo, D||Nolty, R||Okada, C||Orth, C||Osteria, G||Palamara, O||Parlati, S||Patera, V||Patrizii, L||Pazzi, R||Peck, CW||Petrera, S||Pistilli, P||Popa, V||Raino, A||Reynoldson, J||Ronga, F||Rubizzo, U||Sanzgiri, A||Satriano, C||Satta, L||Scapparone, E||Scholberg, K||Sciubba, A||Serra-Lugaresi, P||Severi, M||Sioli, M||Sitta, M||Spinelli, P||Spinetti, M||Spurio, M||Steinberg, R||Stone, JL||Sulak, LR||Surdo, A||Tarle, G||Togo, V||Valente, V||Walter, CW||Webb, R

publication date

  • February 1998