Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2009-12-08
Eur. Phys. J. C67:213-227,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
accepted to Eur.Phys.J.C
Scientific paper
10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1291-9
Electrons and electron neutrinos in the inner core of the core-collapse supernova are highly degenerate and therefore numerous during a few seconds of explosion. In contrast, leptons of other flavors are non-degenerate and therefore relatively scarce. This is due to lepton flavor conservation. If this conservation law is broken by some non-standard interactions, electron neutrinos are converted to muon and tau-neutrinos, and electrons - to muons. This affects the supernova dynamics and the supernova neutrino signal. We consider lepton flavor violating interactions mediated by scalar bileptons, i.e. heavy scalars with lepton number 2. It is shown that in case of TeV-mass bileptons the electron fermi gas is equilibrated with non-electron species inside the inner supernova core at a time-scale of order of (1-100) ms. In particular, a scalar triplet which generates neutrino masses through the see-saw type II mechanism is considered. It is found that supernova core is sensitive to yet unprobed values of masses and couplings of the triplet.
Blinnikov Sergei
Lychkovskiy Oleg
Vysotsky Mikhail
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