Inverting a Supernova: Neutrino Mixing, Temperatures and Binding Energy
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 , and the hierarchy can be deduced for adiabatic transitions. For the normal hierarchy, neither can be constrained nor can the hierarchy be determined. Our conclusions are qualitatively unchanged for the proposed Hyper-Kamiokande detector.
Cite
@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