Stellar Collapse Dynamics With Neutrino Flavor Changing Neutral Currents

dc.creatorAmanik, Philip S.
dc.creatorFuller, George M.
dc.date2006-06-24
dc.date2007-05-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:23:14Z
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dc.descriptionWe perform one-zone simulations of the infall epoch of a pre-supernova stellar core in the presence of neutrino flavor changing scattering interactions. Our calculations give a self-consistent assessment of the relationship between flavor changing rates and the reduction in electron fraction and re-distribution of initial electron lepton number among the neutrino flavors. We discuss and include in our calculations sub-nuclear density medium corrections for flavor changing scattering coherence factors. We find that flavor changing couplings epsilon > 3x10^(-4) in either the electron neutrino - muon neutrino or electron neutrino - tau neutrino channels result in a dynamically significant reduction in core electron fraction relatively soon after neutrino trapping and well before the core reaches nuclear matter density.
dc.description28 pages, 4 figures, some new text added
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606607
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606607
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D75:083008,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.75.083008
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/175756
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleStellar Collapse Dynamics With Neutrino Flavor Changing Neutral Currents
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