Sterile neutrinos and supernova nucleosynthesis
Oct, 1999
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Abstract: (arXiv)
A light sterile neutrino species has been introduced to explain simultaneously the solar and atmospheric neutrino puzzles and the results of the LSND experiment, while providing for a hot component of dark matter. Employing this scheme of neutrino masses and mixings, we show how matter-enhanced active-sterile neutrino transformation followed by active-active neutrino transformation can solve robustly the neutron deficit problem encountered by models of r-process nucleosynthesis associated with neutrino-heated supernova ejecta.- neutrino: sterile
- neutrino: mass
- neutrino: mixing angle
- neutrino: oscillation
- electron: density
- light nucleus: production
- supernova
- proposed experiment
- numerical calculations
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