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Possible trace of neutrino nonstandard interactions in the supernova

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-04-10 v2 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

Neutrino non-standard interactions (NSI), previously introduced for the sun, are studied in the supernova context. For normal hierarchy the probability for electron neutrinos and antineutrinos at low energy (E0.80.9MeVE\lesssim 0.8-0.9 MeV) is substantially increased with respect to the non-NSI case and joins its value for inverse hierarchy which is constant with energy. Also for inverse hierarchy the NSI and non-NSI probabilities are the same for each neutrino and antineutrino species. These are the possible visible effects of NSI in the supernova. The decay into antineutrinos, which has been previously shown to be implied by dense matter, cannot be seen experimentally, owing to the smallness of the antineutrino production probability.

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@article{arxiv.1111.6939,
  title  = {Possible trace of neutrino nonstandard interactions in the supernova},
  author = {C. R. Das and Joao Pulido},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.6939},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 eps figures. Acknowledgements included