Speed-up of neutrino transformations in a supernova environment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-11 v1 Astrophysics
Abstract
When the neutral current neutrino-neutrino interaction is treated completely, rather than as an interaction among angle-averaged distributions, or as a set of flavor-diagonal effective potentials, the result can be flavor mixing at a speed orders of magnitude faster than that one would anticipate from the measured neutrino oscillation parameters. It is possible that the energy spectra of the three active species of neutrinos emerging from a supernova are nearly identical.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0503013,
title = {Speed-up of neutrino transformations in a supernova environment},
author = {R. F. Sawyer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0503013},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, 4 figures