Solar neutrino flare, megaton neutrino detectors and human space journey

摘要

The largest solar flares have been recorded in gamma flash and hard spectra up to tens GeV energy. The present building and upgrade of Hyper-Kamiokande (HK) in Japan and Korea, (as well as Deep Core, PINGU) Megatons neutrino detectors do offer a novel way to detectable traces of solar flares: their sudden anti-neutrino (or neutrino) imprint made by proton scattering and pion decays via Delta resonance production on solar corona foot-point. These signals might be observable at largest flare by HK via soft spectra up to tens-hundred MeV energy and by IceCube-PINGU at higher, GeVs energies. We show the expected rate of signals for the most powerful solar flare occurred in recent decades extrapolated for future Megaton detectors. The neutrino solar flare detection with its prompt alarm system may alert astronauts on space journey allowing them to protect themselves into inner rocket containers surrounded by fuel or water supply. These container walls are able to defend astronauts from the main lethal (the dominant soft component) radiation wind due to such largest solar flares.