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Effect of random magnetic field on active-sterile neutrino conversion in the supernova core

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-12-30 v1

Abstract

The active-sterile neutrino conversion is studied for neutrino propagating in the axial potential generated by magnetised electron plasma in the supernova medium. We consider the effect of random magnetic field BrmsB_{rms} on the average neutrino conversion probability. We obtained the constraint on Δm2\Delta m^2 and sin22θ\sin^2 2\theta for different strength of the random magnetic fields, by considering the positive definiteness of the average neutrino conversion probability inside the supernova core. Our calculation shows that, Brms0.63×1014B_{rms}\le 0.63\times 10^{14} Gauss is preferable so that small values of Δm2\Delta m^2 can not be excluded.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9806427,
  title  = {Effect of random magnetic field on active-sterile neutrino conversion in the supernova core},
  author = {Sarira Sahu and Vishnu M. Bannur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9806427},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, revtex, one figure