Supernova neutrino three-flavor evolution with dominant collective effects

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Published 28 April 2009 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation Gianluigi Fogli et al JCAP04(2009)030 DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/04/030

1475-7516/2009/04/030

Abstract

Neutrino and antineutrino fluxes from a core-collapse galactic supernova are studied, within a representative three-flavor scenario with inverted mass hierarchy and tiny 1-3 mixing. The initial flavor evolution is dominated by collective self-interaction effects, which are computed in a full three-family framework along an averaged radial trajectory. During the whole time span considered (t = 1–20 s), neutrino and antineutrino spectral splits emerge as dominant features in the energy domain for the final, observable fluxes. The main results can be useful for SN event rate simulations in specific detectors. Some minor or unobservable three-family features (e.g., related to the muonic-tauonic flavor sector), as well as observable effects due to variations in the spectral input, are also discussed for completeness.

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10.1088/1475-7516/2009/04/030