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Possible effects of collective neutrino oscillations in the three flavor multi-angle simulations on supernova $\nu p$ process

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2017-09-13 v1

Abstract

We study the effects of collective neutrino oscillations on νp\nu p process nucleosynthesis in proton-rich neutrino-driven winds by including both the multi-angle 3×33\times3 flavor mixing and the nucleosynthesis network calculation. The number flux of energetic electron antineutrinos is raised by collective neutrino oscillations in a 11D supernova model for 40M40 M_{\odot} progenitor. When the gas temperature decreases down to 23×109\sim2-3\times10^{9} K, the increased flux of electron antineutrinos promotes νp\nu p process more actively, resulting in the enhancement of pp-nuclei. In the early phase of neutrino-driven wind, blowing at 0.60.6 s after core bounce, oscillation effects are prominent in inverted mass hierarchy and pp-nuclei are synthesized up to 106Cd^{106}\mathrm{Cd} and 108Cd^{108}\mathrm{Cd}. On the other hand, in the later wind trajectory at 1.11.1 s after core bounce, abundances of pp-nuclei are increased remarkably by 10104\sim10-10^{4} times in normal mass hierarchy and even reaching heavier pp-nuclei such as 124Xe^{124}\mathrm{Xe}, 126Xe^{126}\mathrm{Xe} and 130Ba^{130}\mathrm{Ba}. The averaged overproduction factor of pp-nuclei is dominated by the later wind trajectories. Our results demonstrate that collective neutrino oscillations can strongly influence νp\nu p process, which indicates that they should be included in the network calculations in order to obtain precise abundances of pp-nuclei. The conclusions of this paper depend on the difference of initial neutrino parameters between electron and non-electron antineutrino flavors which is large in our case. Further systematic studies on input neutrino physics and wind trajectories are necessary to draw a robust conclusion. However, this finding would help understand the origin of solar-system isotopic abundances of pp-nuclei such as 92,94Mo^{92,94}\mathrm{Mo} and 96,98Ru^{96,98}\mathrm{Ru}.

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@article{arxiv.1707.09111,
  title  = {Possible effects of collective neutrino oscillations in the three flavor multi-angle simulations on supernova $\nu p$ process},
  author = {H. Sasaki and T. Kajino and T. Takiwaki and T. Hayakawa and A. B. Balantekin and Y. Pehlivan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.09111},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

15 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.D