Acquiring information about neutrino parameters by detecting supernova neutrinos

Journal Article · Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.82.033011· OSTI ID:21432838

Huang, Ming-Yang; Guo, Xin-Heng ^[1]; Young, Bing-Lin ^[2]

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1. College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875 (China)
2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 5001 (United States)

We consider the supernova shock effects, the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effects, the collective effects, and the Earth matter effects in the detection of type II supernova neutrinos on the Earth. It is found that the event number of supernova neutrinos depends on the neutrino mass hierarchy, the neutrino mixing angle {theta}{sub 13}, and neutrino masses. Therefore, we propose possible methods to identify the mass hierarchy and acquire information about {theta}{sub 13} and neutrino masses by detecting supernova neutrinos. We apply these methods to some current neutrino experiments.

• OSTI ID: 21432838
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 82, Issue 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.033011; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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