Suppression of Self-Induced Flavor Conversion in the Supernova Accretion Phase

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2011-09-16

arxiv.org/abs/1109.3601v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 061101 (2012)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

4 pages, 5 figures; minor edits, matches the version published in PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.061101

Self-induced flavor conversions of supernova (SN) neutrinos can strongly modify the flavor dependent fluxes. We perform a linearized flavor stability analysis with accretion-phase matter profiles of a 15 M_sun spherically symmetric model and corresponding neutrino fluxes. We use realistic energy and angle distributions, the latter deviating strongly from quasi-isotropic emission, thus accounting for both multi-angle and multi-energy effects. For our matter and neutrino density profile we always find stable conditions: flavor conversions are limited to the usual MSW effect. In this case one may distinguish the neutrino mass hierarchy in a SN neutrino signal if the mixing angle theta_13 is as large as suggested by recent experiments.

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