We study the potential of a very large volume underwater Mediterraneanneutrino telescope to observe neutrinos from supernova (SN) explosions withinour galaxy. The intense neutrino burst emitted in a SN explosion results in alarge number of MeV neutrinos inside the instrumented volume of the neutrinotelescope that can be detected (mainly) via the reaction \nu_e-bar + p -> e^+ +n . In this study we simulated the response of the underwater neutrinotelescope to the electron antineutrino flux predicted by the Garching model forSN explosions. We assumed that the neutrino telescope comprises 6160 directionsensitive optical modules, each containing 31 small photomultiplier tubes.Multiple coincidences between the photomultiplier tubes of the same opticalmodule are utilized to suppress the noise produced by $^{40}K$ radioactivedecays and to establish a statistical significant signature of the SNexplosion.
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机译：我们研究了非常大容量的水下地中海中微子望远镜观测银河系中超新星（SN）爆炸中微子的潜力。在SN爆炸中发出的强烈的中微子爆发会在中微子镜的仪器化体积内产生大量MeV中微子，（主要）可以通过反应\ nu_e-bar + p-> e ^ + + n来检测。在这项研究中，我们模拟了水下中微子显微镜对由Garching模型预测的SN爆炸电子反中微子通量的响应。我们假设中微子望远镜包含6160个方向敏感的光学模块，每个光学模块包含31个小的光电倍增管。同一光学模块的光电倍增管之间的多个重合之处用于抑制$ ^ {40} K $放射性衰变产生的噪声并建立统计SNexplosion的重要签名。
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