Effect of flavor mixing on the time delay of massive supernova neutrinos

被引:3
作者
Choubey, S [1 ]
Kar, K [1 ]
机构
[1] Saha Inst Nucl Phys, Kolkata 700064, W Bengal, India
关键词
massive neutrinos; supernovae; neutrino mixing;
D O I
10.1016/S0370-2693(00)00351-8
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The neutrinos and antineutrinos of all the three flavors released from a galactic supernova will be detected in the water Cerenkov detectors. We show that even though the neutral current interaction is flavor blind, and hence neutrino flavor mixing cannot alter the total neutral current signal in the detector, it can have a non-trivial impact on the delay of massive neutrinos and alters the neutral current event rate as a function of time. We have suggested various variables of the neutral and charged current events that can be used to study this effect. In particular the ratio of charged to neutral current events can be used at early times while the ratio of the energy moments for the charged to the neutral current events can form useful diagnostic tools even at late times to study neutrino mass and mixing. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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