Neutrino luminosity and matter-induced modification of collective neutrino flavor oscillations in supernovae

作者:Cherry John F*; Wu Meng Ru; Carlson J; Duan Huaiyu; Fuller George M; Qian Yong Zhong
来源:Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2012, 85(12): 125010.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.85.125010

摘要

We present the first calculations of self-coupled neutrino flavor oscillations with time integrated luminosities and energy spectra for the neutronization burst of an O - Ne - Mg core-collapse supernova. These calculations allow us to gauge the effects of time varying neutrino luminosity and of the bump in the electron number density profile at the base of the hydrogen envelope in O - Ne - Mg core-collapse supernovae. The bump allows a significant fraction of the low-energy nu(e) to survive by rendering their flavor-evolution nonadiabatic. Increasing the luminosity of the neutronization burst shifts the bump-affected nu(e) to lower energy with reduced survival probability. Similarly, lowering the luminosity shifts the bump-affected neutrinos to higher energies. While these low-energy neutrinos lie near the edge of detectability, the population of bump-affected neutrinos has direct influence on the spectral swap formation in the neutrino signal at higher energies.

  • 出版日期2012-6-7
  • 单位Los Alamos