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

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

Monday, April 27, 2020 at 4:00 pm
ZOOM
Kate Scholberg (Duke)

When a massive star collapses at the end of its life, nearly all of
the gravitational binding energy of the resulting 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.

Heidi Schellman