Coherent development of neutrino flavor in the supernova environment.
We calculate coherent neutrino and antineutrino flavor transformation in the supernova environment, for the first time including self-consistent coupling of intersecting neutrino and antineutrino trajectories. For neutrino mass-squared difference /deltam2/ = 3 x 10(-3) eV2 we find that in the normal (inverted) mass hierarchy the more tangentially-propagating (radially-propagating) neutrinos and antineutrinos can initiate collective, simultaneous medium-enhanced flavor conversion of these particles across broad ranges of energy and propagation direction. Accompanying alterations in neutrino and antineutrino energy spectra and fluxes could affect supernova nucleosynthesis and the expected neutrino signal.
Duan
Huaiyu
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Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0319, USA.
Fuller
George M
GM
Carlson
J
J
Qian
Yong-Zhong
YZ