Effect of collective neutrino flavor oscillations on vp-process nucleosynthesis

Abstract

The vp process is a primary nucleosynthesis process which occurs in core collapse supernovae. An essential role in this process is being played by electron antineutrinos. They generate, by absorption on protons, a supply of neutrons which, by (n,p) reactions, allow to overcome waiting point nuclei with rather long beta-decay and proton-capture lifetimes. The synthesis of heavy elements by the vp process depends sensitively on the \barν_e luminosity and spectrum. As has been shown recently, the latter are affected by collective neutrino flavor oscillations which can swap the \barν_e and \barν_{μ,τ} spectra above a certain split energy. Assuming such a swap scenario, we have studied the impact of collective neutrino flavor oscillations on the vp-process nucleosynthesis. Our results show that the production of light p-nuclei up to mass number A=108 is very sensitive to collective neutrino oscillations.

4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Physics Letters B

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