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Inverting a Supernova: Neutrino Mixing, Temperatures and Binding Energy

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v3 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We show that the temperatures of the emergent non-electron neutrinos and the binding energy released by a galactic Type II supernova are determinable, assuming the Large Mixing Angle (LMA) solution is correct, from observations at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) and at Super-Kamiokande (SK). If the neutrino mass hierarchy is inverted, either a lower or upper bound can be placed on the neutrino mixing angle θ13\theta_{13}, and the hierarchy can be deduced for adiabatic transitions. For the normal hierarchy, neither can θ13\theta_{13} be constrained nor can the hierarchy be determined. Our conclusions are qualitatively unchanged for the proposed Hyper-Kamiokande detector.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0112125,
  title  = {Inverting a Supernova: Neutrino Mixing, Temperatures and Binding Energy},
  author = {V. Barger and D. Marfatia and B. P. Wood},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0112125},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

Following astro-ph/0208035, we adopt electron and non-electron neutrino spectra with very small differences. Conclusions changed