Neutrino Oscillations and the Supernova 1987A Signal

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1996-01-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9601111v2

Phys.Rev. D54 (1996) 1194-1203

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Final version with very minor wording changes, to be published in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.54.1194

We study the impact of neutrino oscillations on the interpretation of the supernova (SN) 1987A neutrino signal by means of a maximum-likelihood analysis. We focus on oscillations between $\overline\nu_e$ with $\overline\nu_\mu$ or $\overline\nu_\tau$ with those mixing parameters that would solve the solar neutrino problem. For the small-angle MSW solution ($\Delta m^2\approx10^{-5}\,\rm eV^2$, $\sin^22\Theta_0\approx0.007$), there are no significant oscillation effects on the Kelvin-Helmholtz cooling signal; we confirm previous best-fit values for the neutron-star binding energy and average spectral $\overline\nu_e$ temperature. There is only marginal overlap between the upper end of the 95.4\% CL inferred range of $\langle E_{\overline\nu_e}\rangle$ and the lower end of the range of theoretical predictions. Any admixture of the stiffer $\overline\nu_\mu$ spectrum by oscillations aggravates the conflict between experimentally inferred and theoretically predicted spectral properties. For mixing parameters in the neighborhood of the large-angle MSW solution ($\Delta m^2\approx10^{-5}\,\rm eV^2$, $\sin^22\Theta_0\approx0.7$) the oscillations in the SN are adiabatic, but one needs to include the regeneration effect in the Earth which causes the Kamiokande and IMB detectors to observe different $\overline\nu_e$ spectra. For the solar vacuum solution ($\Delta m^2\approx10^{-10}\,\rm eV^2$, $\sin^22\Theta_0\approx1$) the oscillations in the SN are nonadiabatic; vacuum oscillations take place between the SN and the detector. If either of the large-angle solutions were borne out by the upcoming round of solar neutrino experiments, one would have to conclude that the SN~1987A $\overline\nu_\mu$ and/or $\overline\nu_e$ spectra had been much softer than predicted by current

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