Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2009-11-06
JCAP 1006:007,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
25 pages, 10 figures, added figure and improved discussion, result unchanged. Version matches to published version of JCAP
Scientific paper
Neutrino-neutrino interactions inside core-collapse supernovae may give rise to collective flavor oscillations resulting in swap between flavors. These oscillations depend on the initial energy spectra, and relative fluxes or relative luminosities of the neutrinos. It has been observed that departure from energy equipartition among different flavors can give rise to one or more sharp spectral swap over energy, termed as splits. We study the occurrence of splits in the neutrino and antineutrino spectra, varying the initial relative fluxes for different models of initial energy spectrum, in both normal and inverted hierarchy. These initial relative flux variations give rise to several possible split patterns whereas variation over different models of energy spectra give similar results. We explore the effect of these spectral splits on the electron fraction, $Y_e$, that governs r-process nucleosynthesis inside supernovae. Since spectral splits modify the electron neutrino and antineutrino spectra in the region where r-process is postulated to happen, and since the pattern of spectral splits depends on the initial conditions of the spectra and the neutrino mass hierarchy, we show that the condition $Y_e < 0.5$ required for successful r-process nucleosynthesis will lead to constraints on the initial spectral conditions, for a given neutrino mass hierarchy.
Chakraborty Sovan
Choubey Sandhya
Goswami Srubabati
Kar Kamales
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