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Resonant conversion of massless neutrinos in supernovae
Hiroshi NunokawaJose W.f. ValleAnna RossiYong Zhong Qiansubject
PhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsParticle physicsAstrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical PhenomenaAstrophysics (astro-ph)High Energy Physics::PhenomenologyFOS: Physical sciencesFísicaAstrophysicsNuclear physicsMassless particleSupernovaHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyGeneral Relativity and Quantum CosmologyHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)NucleosynthesisHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentNeutrinoNeutrino oscillationMixing (physics)Charged currentEnergy (signal processing)description
It has been noted for a long time that, in some circumstances, {\sl massless} neutrinos may be {\sl mixed} in the leptonic charged current. Conventional neutrino oscillation searches in vacuum are insensitive to this mixing. We discuss the effects of resonant massless-neutrino conversions in the dense medium of a supernova. In particular, we show how the detected $\bar\nu_e$ energy spectra from SN1987a and the supernova $r$-process nucleosynthesis may be used to provide very stringent constraints on the mixing of {\sl massless} neutrinos.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996-05-14 |