Stability analysis of collective neutrino oscillations in the supernova accretion phase with realistic energy and angle distributions

Link:
Autor/in:
Erscheinungsjahr:
2012
Medientyp:
Text
Schlagworte:
  • Neutrinos
  • Supernovae
  • Supernova neutrino
  • Decay
  • Quarks
  • Neutrinos
  • Supernovae
  • Supernova neutrino
  • Decay
  • Quarks
Beschreibung:
  • We revisit our previous results on the matter suppression of self-induced neutrino flavor conversions during a supernova (SN) accretion phase, performing a linearized stability analysis of the neutrino equations of motion, in the presence of realistic SN density profiles. In our previous numerical study, we used a simplified model based on an isotropic neutrino emission with a single typical energy. Here, we take into account realistic neutrino energy and angle distributions. We find that multienergy effects have a subleading impact in the flavor stability of the SN neutrino fluxes with respect to our previous single-energy results. Conversely, realistic forward-peaked neutrino angular distributions would enhance the matter suppression of the self-induced oscillations with respect to an isotropic neutrino emission. As a result, in our models for iron-core SNe, collective flavor conversions have a negligible impact on the characterization of the observable neutrino signal during the accretion phase. Instead, for a low-mass O-Ne-Mg core SN model, with lower matter density profile and less forward-peaked angular distributions, collective conversions are possible also at early times.
Lizenz:
  • info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
Quellsystem:
Forschungsinformationssystem der UHH

Interne Metadaten
Quelldatensatz
oai:www.edit.fis.uni-hamburg.de:publications/08a1882a-10b2-42fc-94b3-a541611a1f31