Coherent development of neutrino flavor in the supernova environment

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作者
Duan, Huaiyu [1 ]
Fuller, George M.
Carlson, J.
Qian, Yong-Zhong
机构
[1] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Phys, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[2] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Div Theoret, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[3] Univ Minnesota, Sch Phys & Astron, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.241101
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We calculate coherent neutrino and antineutrino flavor transformation in the supernova environment, for the first time including self-consistent coupling of intersecting neutrino and antineutrino trajectories. For neutrino mass-squared difference vertical bar delta m(2)vertical bar = 3 x 10(-3) eV(2) we find that in the normal (inverted) mass hierarchy the more tangentially-propagating (radially-propagating) neutrinos and antineutrinos can initiate collective, simultaneous medium-enhanced flavor conversion of these particles across broad ranges of energy and propagation direction. Accompanying alterations in neutrino and antineutrino energy spectra and fluxes could affect supernova nucleosynthesis and the expected neutrino signal.
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