Supernova 1987a and the secret interactions of neutrinos

Technical Report · Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1987

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6067552· OSTI ID:6067552

Kolb, E W; Turner, M S

By using SN 1987a as a 'source' of neutrinos with energy approx.10 MeV we place limits on the couplings of neutrinos with cosmic background particles. Specifically, we find that the Majoron-electron neutrino coupling must be less than about 10/sup -3/; if neutrinos couple to a massless vector particle, its dimensionless coupling must be less than about 10/sup -3/; and if neutrinos couple with strength g to a massive boson of mass M, then g/M must be less than 12 MeV/sup -1/. 11 refs., 3 tabs.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Osservatorio Astronomico, Rome (Italy); Chicago Univ., IL (USA). Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics; Chicago Univ., IL (USA). Enrico Fermi Inst.
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03000
• OSTI ID: 6067552
• Report Number(s): FNAL/Pub-87/110-A; ON: DE87013478; TRN: 87-030781
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
COSMIC NEUTRINOS
NEUTRINO OSCILLATION
SUPERNOVAE
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
ELECTRON NEUTRINOS
MAJORANA THEORY
NEUTRINO-NEUTRINO INTERACTIONS
POSTULATED PARTICLES
COSMIC RADIATION
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ERUPTIVE VARIABLE STARS
FERMIONS
INTERACTIONS
IONIZING RADIATIONS
LEPTON-LEPTON INTERACTIONS
LEPTONS
MASSLESS PARTICLES
NEUTRINOS
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
RADIATIONS
STARS
VARIABLE STARS
640102* - Astrophysics & Cosmology- Stars & Quasi-Stellar
Radio & X-Ray Sources