MASSIVE DIRAC NEUTRINOS AND SN-1987A

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BURROWS, A
GANDHI, R
TURNER, MS
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[1] FERMI NATL ACCELERATOR LAB,NASA FERMILAB ASTROPHYS CTR,BATAVIA,IL 60510
[2] UNIV CHICAGO,ENRICO FERMI INST,DEPT ASTRON & ASTROPHYS,CHICAGO,IL 60637
[3] UNIV CHICAGO,DEPT PHYS,CHICAGO,IL 60637
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.3834
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
The wrong-helicity states of a Dirac neutrino can provide an important cooling mechanism for young neutron stars. Based on numerical models of the early cooling of the neutron star associated with SN 1987A which self-consistently incorporate wrong-helicity neutrino emission, we argue that a Dirac neutrino of mass greater than 30 keV (25 keV if it is degenerate) leads to shortening of the neutrino burst that is inconsistent with the Irvine-Michigan-Brookhaven and Kamiokande II data. If pions are as abundant as nucleons in the cores of neutron stars, our limit improves to 15 keV.
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