Neutral current induced neutrino oscillations in a supernova
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2014-11-17 v1 Astrophysics
Abstract
Neutral currents induced matter oscillations of electroweak-active (anti-)neutrinos to sterile neutrinos can explain the observed motion of pulsars. In contrast to a recently proposed explanation of the pulsar birth velocities based on the electron to tau (muon) neutrino oscillations [hep-ph/9606428], the heaviest neutrino (either active or sterile) would have to have mass of order several keV.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9701311,
title = {Neutral current induced neutrino oscillations in a supernova},
author = {Alexander Kusenko and Gino Segre},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9701311},
year = {2014}
}
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6 pages, latex, postscript file is also available at ftp://dept.physics.upenn.edu/pub/Kusenko/UPR729T.ps