Probing the neutrino mass hierarchy and the 13-mixing with supernovae

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  • Cecilia Lunardini
  • Alexei Yu. Smirnov
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We consider in details the effects of the 13-mixing (sin θ13) and of the type of mass hierarchy/ordering (sign[∆m13]) on neutrino signals from the gravitational collapses of stars. The observables (characteristics of the energy spectra of νe and ν̄e events) sensitive to sin θ13 and sign[∆m 2 13] have been calculated. They include the ratio of average energies of the spectra, rE ≡ 〈E〉/〈Ē〉, the ratio of widths of the energy distributions, rΓ ≡ Γ/Γ̄, the ratios of total numbers of νe and ν̄e events at low energies, S, and in the high energy tails, Rtail. We construct and analyze scatter plots which show the predictions for the observables for different intervals of sin θ13 and signs of ∆m13, taking into account uncertainties in the original neutrino spectra, the star density profile, etc.. Regions in the space of observables rE , rΓ, S, Rtail exist in which certain mass hierarchy and intervals of sin θ13 can be identified or discriminated. We elaborate on the method of the high energy tails in the spectra of events. The conditions are formulated for which sin θ13 can be (i) measured, (ii) restricted from below, (iii) restricted from above. We comment on the possibility to determine sin θ13 using the time dependence of the signals due to the propagation of the shock wave through the resonance layers of the star. We show that the appearance of the delayed Earth matter effect in one of the channels (νe or ν̄e) in combination with the undelayed effect in the other channel will allow to identify the shock wave appeareance and determine the mass hierarchy. PACS: 14.60.Pq, 97.60.Bw.

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تاریخ انتشار 2003