Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2010-06-18
Phys.Lett.B702:209-215,2011
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
9 pages, 5 figures, version matches published version in Phys.Lett.B
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physletb.2011.06.089
Collective flavor oscillations are known to bring multiple splits in the supernova (SN) neutrino and antineutrino spectra. These spectral splits depend not only on the mass hierarchy of the neutrinos but also on the initial relative flux composition. Observation of spectral splits in a future galactic supernova signal is expected to throw light on the mass hierarchy pattern of the neutrinos. However, since the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background (DSNB) comprises of a superposition of neutrino fluxes from all past supernovae, and since different supernovae are expected to have slightly different initial fluxes, it is pertinent to check if the hierarchy dependent signature of collective oscillations can survive this averaging of the flux spectra. Since the actual distribution of SN with initial relative flux spectra of the neutrinos and antineutrinos is unknown, we assume a log-normal distribution for them. We study the dependence of the hierarchy sensitivity to the mean and variance of the log-normal distribution function. We find that the hierarchy sensitivity depends crucially on the mean value of the relative initial luminosity. The effect of the width is to reduce the hierarchy sensitivity for all values of the mean initial relative luminosity. We find that in the very small mixing angle ($\theta_{13}$) limit considering only statistical errors even for very moderate values of variance, there is almost no detectable hierarchy sensitivity if the mean relative luminosities of $\nu_e$ and $\bar\nu_e$ are greater than 1.
Chakraborty Sovan
Choubey Sandhya
Kar Kamales
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