Prospects of the search for neutrino bursts from Supernovae with Baksan Large Volume Scintillation Detector

TL;DR

This paper discusses the potential of the Baksan Large Volume Scintillation Detector to detect neutrino bursts from supernovae in our galaxy, advancing low-energy neutrino astronomy.

Contribution

It evaluates the prospects of using the BLVSD for detecting all neutrino flavors from galactic supernovae, highlighting its capabilities and significance.

Findings

Potential to detect all neutrino flavors from supernovae

Enhanced sensitivity due to large detector volume

Positioned at a deep underground site for reduced background

Abstract

Observing a high-statistics neutrino signal from the supernova explosions in the Galaxy is a major goal of low-energy neutrino astronomy. The prospects for detecting all flavors of neutrinos and antineutrinos from the core-collapse supernova (ccSN) in operating and forthcoming large liquid scintillation detectors (LLSD) are widely discussed now. One of proposed LLSD is Baksan Large Volume Scintillation Detector (BLVSD). This detector will be installed at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory (BNO) of the Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, at a depth of 4800 m.w.e. Low-energy neutrino astronomy is one of the main lines of research of the BLVSD.