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Supernova neutrino oscillations: Adiabaticity improvement by Majoron fields

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

If the lepton numbers are associated with global symmetries spontaneously broken at a scale below 1 TeV, neutrino oscillations in supernovae produce classic Majoron fields that perturb the neutrino propagation itself and may change the oscillation patterns in the periods of largest ν\nu fluxes. The impact of the Majoron fields on the same transitions as νeνX\nu_{e}\to \nu_{X} that presumably occur in the Sun is studied in the case of the non-adiabatic MSW solution. It is shown how the back reaction of the Majoron fields may improve the adiabaticity of these oscillations in a supernova environment which has implications on the outgoing νe\nu_{e} spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9806411,
  title  = {Supernova neutrino oscillations: Adiabaticity improvement by Majoron fields},
  author = {Luis Bento},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9806411},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages, RevTeX, 3 figures (.eps files). Some changes in section 2, References added, accepted in September for publication in PRD1