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Neutrino spectral split in core-collapse supernovae: A magnetic resonance phenomenon

Sébastien Galais* and Cristina Volpe†

  • Institut de Physique Nucléaire Orsay, F-91406 Orsay cedex, France

  • *galais@ipno.in2p3.fr
  • †volpe@ipno.in2p3.fr
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Phys. Rev. D 84, 085005 – Published 5 October, 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.84.085005

Abstract

A variety of neutrino flavor conversion phenomena occur in core-collapse supernova, due to the large neutrino density close to the neutrinosphere, and the importance of the neutrino-neutrino interaction. Three different regimes have been identified so far, usually called the synchronization, the bipolar oscillations, and the spectral split. Using the formalism of polarization vectors, within two flavors, we focus on the spectral split phenomenon and we show for the first time that the physical mechanism underlying the neutrino spectral split is a magnetic resonance phenomenon. In particular, we show that the precession frequencies fulfill the magnetic resonance conditions. Our numerical calculations show that the neutrino energies and the location at which the resonance takes place in the supernova coincide well with the neutrino energies at which a spectral swap occurs. The corresponding adiabaticity parameters present spikes at the resonance location.

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Phys. Rev. D 84, 085005– Published 5 October, 2011
  • Received 28 March 2011

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