Diffuse Neutrino Background from Magnetorotational Stellar Core Collapses

TL;DR

This paper investigates how magnetorotational stellar core collapses contribute to the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB), using advanced simulations to predict detection prospects and constrain their occurrence rate.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed assessment of the magnetorotational collapse contribution to the DSNB using 3D neutrino-magnetohydrodynamic simulations and evaluates detection prospects with current and future neutrino observatories.

Findings

Magnetorotational collapses boost the high-energy tail of the DSNB spectrum.

Current data exclude more than 13% of collapses being magnetorotational under optimistic assumptions.

Future detectors could measure the fraction of magnetorotational collapses if it exceeds 10-19%.

Abstract

A statistically significant detection of the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) is around the corner. To this purpose, we assess the contribution to the DSNB of magnetorotational collapses of massive stars, relying on a suite of state-of-the-art three-dimensional neutrino-magnetohydrodynamic simulations. We find that neutrinos from magnetorotational core collapses boost the high-energy tail of the DSNB spectrum, similar to what is expected from neutrino-driven black hole-forming collapses. The latest data from the Super-Kamiokande Collaboration can already exclude that more than $13\%$ of all collapsing massive stars undergo magnetorotational collapses under optimistic assumptions. A DSNB detection at $3 \sigma$ could take place up to $4$ yr earlier at Super-Kamiokande-Gadolinium or JUNO if the fraction of magnetorotational collapses should be larger than $10\%$. Fascinatingly, if the fraction of magnetorotational stellar collapses should be larger than $19\%$ ($13\%$), Hyper-Kamiokande could measure such a fraction at $3\sigma$ after ($10$ yr) $20$ yr of DSNB data taking. The combination of DSNB and electromagnetic data has the potential to resolve the degenerate contributions from magnetorotational and neutrino-driven black hole-forming collapses, providing crucial insight on the properties of the population of collapsing massive stars.