Decoherence in supernova neutrino transformations suppressed by deleptonization
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Esteban Pretel, Andreu; Pastor Carpi, Sergio; Tomàs, Ricard; Raffelt, Georg G.; Sigl, Günter
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Aquest document és un/a article, creat/da en: 2007
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In the dense-neutrino region at 50-400 km above the neutrino sphere in a supernova, neutrino-neutrino interactions cause large flavor transformations. We study when the multi-angle nature of the neutrino trajectories leads to flavor decoherence between different angular modes. We consider a two-flavor mixing scenario between nue and another flavor nux and assume the usual hierarchy F(nue)>F{antinue)>F(nux)=F(antinux) for the number fluxes. We define epsilon=(F(nue)-F(antinue))/(F(antinue)-F(antinux)) as a measure for the deleptonization flux which is the one crucial parameter. The transition between the quasi single-angle behavior and multi-angle decoherence is abrupt as a function of epsilon. For typical choices of other parameters, multi-angle decoherence is suppressed for epsilon>0.3, but a much smaller asymmetry suffices if the neutrino mass hierarchy is normal and the mixing angle small. The critical epsilon depends logarithmically on the neutrino luminosity. In a realistic supernova scenario, the deleptonization flux is probably enough to suppress multi-angle decoherence.
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