Supernova Neutrinos and the Tau-Neutrino Mass

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1997-01-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9701232v1

Astropart.Phys. 7 (1997) 245-262

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

25 pages - 1 LaTeX file and 14 (E)PS figures in a tarred, gzipped, uuencoded file - figures included via EPSFIG commands - sub

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0927-6505(97)00021-2

We perform an extensive investigation of the sensitivity to non-vanishing tau-neutrino mass in a large water Cherenkov detector, developing an analysis method for neutrino events originated by a supernova explosion. This approach, based on directional considerations, provides informations almost undepending on the supernova model. We analyze several theoretical models from numerical simulations and phenomenological models based on SN1987A data, and determine optimal values of the analysis parameters so as to reach the highest sensitivity to a non-vanishing tau-neutrino mass. The minimal detectable mass is generally just above the cosmologically interesting range, m ~ 100 eV, in the case of a supernova explosion near the galactic center. For the case that no positive signal is obtained, observation of a neutrino burst with Super-Kamiokande will anyhow lower the present upper bound on tau-neutrino mass to few hundred eV.

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