Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1994-06-29
Phys.Rev.D51:1479-1494,1995
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
38 pages, tex, DOE/ER/40561-150-INT94-00-63
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.51.1479
We examine matter-enhanced neutrino flavor transformation ($\nu_{\tau(\mu)}\rightleftharpoons\nu_e$) in the region above the neutrino sphere in Type II supernovae. Our treatment explicitly includes contributions to the neutrino-propagation Hamiltonian from neutrino-neutrino forward scattering. A proper inclusion of these contributions shows that they have a completely negligible effect on the range of $\nu_e$-$\nu_{\tau(\mu)}$ vacuum mass-squared difference, $\delta m^2$, and vacuum mixing angle, $\theta$, or equivalently $\sin^22\theta$, required for enhanced supernova shock re-heating. When neutrino background effects are included, we find that $r$-process nucleosynthesis from neutrino-heated supernova ejecta remains a sensitive probe of the mixing between a light $\nu_e$ and a $\nu_{\tau(\mu)}$ with a cosmologically significant mass. Neutrino-neutrino scattering contributions are found to have a generally small effect on the $(\delta m^2,\ \sin^22\theta)$ parameter region probed by $r$-process nucleosynthesis. We point out that the nonlinear effects of the neutrino background extend the range of sensitivity of $r$-process nucleosynthesis to smaller values of $\delta m^2$.
Fuller George M.
Qian Yong-Zhong
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