Astroparticle Physics Seminar

Internal Seminar: Supernova neutrino spectral splits

by Irene Tamborra (University of Bari/MPI)

Europe/Berlin
313 (Seminar room)

313

Seminar room

MPI für Physik
Description
In core-collapse supernovae, the neutrino density is high enough to render the nu-nu interactions not negligible. In particular, they can couple the flavor evolution of neutrinos and induce collective flavor changes. We discuss the most important feature observable in the energy spectra (the so called spectral split), both in the case of luminosity equipartition among flavors and for unconstrained luminosities. The spectral split pattern is shown to depend strongly on the initial luminosity for each flavor and the neutrino mass hierarchy. Pure collective three-flavor effects wil be also analyzed.