Thursday, March 8, 2012

1203.1607 (John F. Cherry et al.)

Neutrino scattering and flavor transformation in supernovae    [PDF]

John F. Cherry, J. Carlson, Alexander Friedland, George M. Fuller, Alexey Vlasenko
We argue that the small fraction of neutrinos that undergo direction-changing scattering outside of the neutrinosphere could have significant influence on neutrino flavor transformation in core-collapse supernova environments. We show that the standard treatment for collective neutrino flavor transformation is adequate at late times, but could be inadequate in the crucial shock revival/explosion epoch of core-collapse supernovae, where the potentials that govern neutrino flavor evolution are affected by the scattered neutrinos. Taking account of this effect, and the way it couples to entropy and composition, will require a new paradigm in supernova modeling.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1607

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