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Autores principales: Saito, Keita, Eizuka, Minori, Hu, Zhuojun, Ichimura, Koichi, Ikeda, Motoyasu, Ishidoshiro, Koji, Kawada, Nanami, Machado, Lucas N., Marti-Magro, Lluis, Mikami, Kazuha, Tachibana, Koga, Wendell, Roger A.
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Publicado: 2026
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15691
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author Saito, Keita
Eizuka, Minori
Hu, Zhuojun
Ichimura, Koichi
Ikeda, Motoyasu
Ishidoshiro, Koji
Kawada, Nanami
Machado, Lucas N.
Marti-Magro, Lluis
Mikami, Kazuha
Tachibana, Koga
Wendell, Roger A.
author_facet Saito, Keita
Eizuka, Minori
Hu, Zhuojun
Ichimura, Koichi
Ikeda, Motoyasu
Ishidoshiro, Koji
Kawada, Nanami
Machado, Lucas N.
Marti-Magro, Lluis
Mikami, Kazuha
Tachibana, Koga
Wendell, Roger A.
contents Massive stars ($M>8\mathrm{M_\odot}$) emit neutrinos known as pre-supernova (pre-SN) neutrinos through thermal and nuclear interactions for cooling the stellar core during the final stage of stellar evolution. Real-time monitoring of their pre-SN neutrino interaction rate offers a crucial opportunity to issue an early warning to a core-collapse supernova. Some neutrino detectors, including KamLAND and Super-Kamiokande already operate pre-SN alarm systems based on a statistically significant excess of the observed event rate over the expected background. To improve alarm sensitivity, we propose an alarm method which incorporates the time evolution of the observed pre-SN neutrino event rate. The method uses a log likelihood ratio test that references multiple theoretical stellar-evolution models and treats the core collapse time as a nuisance parameter to be profiled over. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated using simulated data for the KamLAND, Super-Kamiokande with dissolved Gadolinium (SK-Gd) and their combined analysis. The results demonstrate a significant improvement in the warning time compared to the conventional rate-only method, while maintaining the same false alarm rate.
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spellingShingle Development of an early warning method incorporating pre-supernova neutrino light curves
Saito, Keita
Eizuka, Minori
Hu, Zhuojun
Ichimura, Koichi
Ikeda, Motoyasu
Ishidoshiro, Koji
Kawada, Nanami
Machado, Lucas N.
Marti-Magro, Lluis
Mikami, Kazuha
Tachibana, Koga
Wendell, Roger A.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Massive stars ($M>8\mathrm{M_\odot}$) emit neutrinos known as pre-supernova (pre-SN) neutrinos through thermal and nuclear interactions for cooling the stellar core during the final stage of stellar evolution. Real-time monitoring of their pre-SN neutrino interaction rate offers a crucial opportunity to issue an early warning to a core-collapse supernova. Some neutrino detectors, including KamLAND and Super-Kamiokande already operate pre-SN alarm systems based on a statistically significant excess of the observed event rate over the expected background. To improve alarm sensitivity, we propose an alarm method which incorporates the time evolution of the observed pre-SN neutrino event rate. The method uses a log likelihood ratio test that references multiple theoretical stellar-evolution models and treats the core collapse time as a nuisance parameter to be profiled over. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated using simulated data for the KamLAND, Super-Kamiokande with dissolved Gadolinium (SK-Gd) and their combined analysis. The results demonstrate a significant improvement in the warning time compared to the conventional rate-only method, while maintaining the same false alarm rate.
title Development of an early warning method incorporating pre-supernova neutrino light curves
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15691