Published January 18, 2008
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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
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.021101;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0710.1271v2;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review Letters
- Journal Volume
- 100
- Journal Issue
- 2
- Journal Page Range
- p. 021101-021101.4
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- CODEN
- PRLTAO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 39042726
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- EVOLUTION; FLAVOR MODEL; IRON; MAGNESIUM; MASS; NEON; NEUTRINO OSCILLATION; NEUTRINOS; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; OXYGEN; SIMULATION; SUPERNOVAE
- Descriptors DEC
- ALKALINE EARTH METALS; BINARY STARS; COMPOSITE MODELS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ELEMENTS; ERUPTIVE VARIABLE STARS; FERMIONS; FLUIDS; GASES; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METALS; NONMETALS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUARK MODEL; RARE GASES; STARS; TRANSITION ELEMENTS; VARIABLE STARS
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- Notes
- (c) 2008 The American Physical Society