HEP Seminars

Jost Midenga: "Supernova Observation with Hyper-Kamiokande"

Europe/London
MATH-104 (Liverpool Math Department)

MATH-104

Liverpool Math Department

Description

Supernovae are magnificent astrophysical events that produce neutron stars, black holes and many of the chemical elements necessary for life. However, despite millennia of observations and almost a century of astrophysical study, their explosion mechanism is not yet well understood.

In this talk, I will give an overview over the planned Hyper-Kamiokande experiment, which will observe the neutrino flux from the next galactic supernova in unprecedented detail. By comparing a range of different supernova models, I show that a supernova at up to 100 kpc distance would be sufficient to identify the true model with high accuracy.
Once the next galactic supernova happens, Hyper-Kamiokande will thus be able to determine details of the supernova explosion mechanism.

Organized by

Jan Kretzschmar