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

Astrophysics 2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

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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Cite

@article{arxiv.0710.1271,
  title  = {Flavor Evolution of the Neutronization Neutrino Burst from an O-Ne-Mg Core-Collapse Supernova},
  author = {Huaiyu Duan and George M. Fuller and J. Carlson and Yong-Zhong Qian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.1271},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures. Version accepted by PRL