Title: Prospects for Detecting Supernova Neutrinos

Speaker: Prof. John Beacom (Ohio State University）

Moderator: Prof. CAO Jun

Time: 16:00 pm, June 8, 2015

Place: Room C305, IHEP Main Building

Abstract:

Detecting neutrinos is a key to understanding core-collapse supernovae, but this is very difficult. The great insights we gained using just 20 neutrinos from SN 1987A tells us how important it is. How can we detect supernova neutrinos again? There are three frontiers, all with different goals and challenges. First, the high-statistics detection of a supernova in the Milky Way. Second, the low-statistics detections of several supernovae in nearby galaxies. Third, the detection of the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background from all core-collapses in the universe. Together, these results will provide unique insights into what happens when massive stars die.

About the speaker:

Prof. John Beacom received his Ph.D from University of Wisconsin in 1997. He became a professor of Ohio State University in 2004, after working at Caltech and Fermilab for several years. Prof. Beacom is Fellow of American Physical Society and presently the Chair of Division of Astrophysics, American Physical Society. His research interests lie at the intersection of the fields of astrophysics, particle physics, and nuclear physics, concerning mostly neutrinos and the weak interactions. His works are widely cited by Daya Bay and other neutrino experiments.