Mass Varying Neutrinos in Supernovae

Abstract

We study the consequences on the neutrino oscillation parameter space, mixing angle (${\tan }^2\theta$) and vacuum mass difference ($\Delta m_0^2$), when mass varying neutrino (MaVaN) models are assumed in a supernova environment. We consider electronic to sterile channels ${\nu }_e\to {\nu }_s$ and ${\bar{\nu }}_e\to {\bar{\nu }}_s$ in two-flavor scenario. In a given model of MaVaN mechanism, we induce a position-dependent effective mass difference, $\Delta {\tilde{m}}^2(r)$, where $r$ is the distance from the supernova core, that changes the neutrino and anti-neutrino flavour conversion probabilities. We study the constraints on the mixing angle and vacuum mass difference coming from r-process and the SN1987A data. Our result is the appearance of a new exclusion region for very small mixing angles, ${\tan }^2\theta =10^{-6}-10^{-2}$, and small vacuum mass difference, $\Delta m_0^2=1-20$ eV${}^2$, due the MaVaN mechanism.

8 pages, 5 figures

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