Published January 18, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Flavor Evolution of the Neutronization Neutrino Burst From an O-Ne-Mg Core-Collapse Supernova

  • 1. Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 (United States)
  • 3. Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
  • 4. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 (United States)

Description

We present results of 3-neutrino flavor evolution simulations for the neutronization burst from an O-Ne-Mg core-collapse supernova. We find that nonlinear neutrino self-coupling engineers a single spectral feature of stepwise conversion in the inverted neutrino mass hierarchy case and in the normal mass hierarchy case, a superposition of two such features corresponding to the vacuum neutrino mass-squared differences associated with solar and atmospheric neutrino oscillations. These neutrino spectral features offer a unique potential probe of the conditions in the supernova environment and may allow us to distinguish between O-Ne-Mg and Fe core-collapse supernovae

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Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
100
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 021101-021101.4
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

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