Phase effects in neutrino conversions during a supernova shock wave

Abstract

Neutrinos escaping from a core collapse supernova a few seconds after bounce pass through the shock wave, where they may encounter one or more resonances corresponding to $\Delta m_{\mathrm{atm}}^2$. The neutrino mass eigenstates in matter may stay coherent between these multiple resonances, giving rise to oscillations in the survival probabilities of neutrino species. We provide an analytical approximation to these inevitable phase effects, that relates the density profile of the shock wave to the oscillation pattern. The phase effects are present only if the multiple resonances encountered by neutrinos are semi-adiabatic, which typically happens for $10^{-5} \lsim \sin^2 θ_{13} \lsim 10^{-3}$. The observability of these oscillations is severely limited by the inability of the detectors to reconstruct the neutrino energy faithfully. For typical shock wave profiles, the detection of these phase effects seems rather unlikely. However, if the effects are indeed identified in the $\nuebar$ spectra, they would establish inverted hierarchy and a nonzero value of ${\theta }_{13}$.

arXiv comment10 pages, 9 eps figures. Major changes made. Final version to be published in PRD

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