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New Frontiers in Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics: Time varying quarks MHD Jets Neutrino Mass Hierarchy G. J. Mathews – UND OMEG5-I Nov. 18, 2011 NAOJ, Mitaka, Tokyo
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R-PROCESS NUCLEOSYNTHESIS IN THE MHD+NEUTRINO-PAIR HEATED COLLAPSAR JET
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Neutrino-Heated Relativistic MHD Jet Tracer particles undergo high entropy r-process
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R-Process in the jet
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Why is Y e so low then so high? Neutronized accretion- disk material
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Later in the Jet e + p n + e + e + n p + e - Y e ~ [1 + ( e/ e ) 2 ] -1 _ Absorbed/ Lower Temperature
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Analogous to neutrino driven SN wind High Density Environment e + n p + e -
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Evidence for an inverted neutrino hierarchy from neutrino nucleosynthesis in core collapse supernovae, meteorites and new measurements of the θ 13 neutrino mixing angle G. J. Mathews,T. Kajino, W. Aoki,W. Fujiya, J. B. Pitts, 2011, Submitted
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Neutrinos Can Change Flavor => Neutrinos have mass and mix
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Neutrino Flavor vs Mass Eigenstates
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Mass Hierarchy?
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T2K Collaboration
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Neutrino Nucleosynthesis in Core Collapse Supernovae ν ν ν ν ν
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Neutrinos in Supernovae Neutrino Luminosity ~10 53 erg/sec Woosley, Wilson, GJM, Hoffman, Meyers (1994)
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Neutrino Energies are high enough to induce nucleon emission reactions
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The ν-Process Woosley, Hartmann, Hoffman, Haxton (1990) Cross Section is very small ~10 -42 cm 2, Only rare isotopes are affected: 7 Li, 11 B, 19 F, 138 La, 180 Ta
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Neutrino reactions to produce 7 Li and 11 B 7 Li, 7 Be 11 B
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Where do the neutrino reactions occur?
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7 Li and 11 B are produced in the He/C Shell
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Neutrinos interact as they pass through the outer layers
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As Neutrinos Pass through the Supernova they can Oscillate
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Resonance Density => neutrinos convert in O shell
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Transition probabilities Normal Inverted Strong ν μτ => ν e mixing in O shell
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Effects of mixing Mixing in O shell affects neutrino spectrum in outer He/C shell => 7 Li, 11 B affected – ( 138 La, 180 Ta unaffected) Normal hierarchy - Inverted hierarchy -
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Sensitivity of 7 Li/ 11 /B ratio to θ 13 requirement
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What is the lower limit to sin 2 (θ 13 )? T2K
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Problem Isotopic Li/B exceedingly difficult to measure in a SN remnant Even if measured, would be difficult to distinguish the ν-process contribution from surface contamination Need a sample direct from ejected He/C shell
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Murchison Meteorite Ca-Al rich Inclusions Primitive Solar System Material
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SiC grains
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Nyugen (2005) X grains ~1% of SiC grains
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Composition of SiC grains SiC X grains exhibit 12 C/ 13 C > Solar, 14 N/ 15 N < Solar, Enhanced 28 Si, Decay of 26 Al (t 1/2 = 7x10 5 yr) and 44 Ti (t 1/2 = 60 yr) => origin in Core Collapse Supernovae
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Out of 1000 SiC grains from a 30 g sample of the Murchison CM2 chondrite, 7 X grains show resolvable anomalies in Li and/or B. => 7 Li/ 11 B > upper limit
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Preference for inverted hierarchy 2 σ 3 σ
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Baysian Analysis Let O be the observed isotopic ratio hierarch, I be the theory that the mass hierarchy is inverted, and N be that the mass hierarchy is normal P(I|O) = P(I) P(O|I) / P(O) = P(I) P(O|I) / { P(I) P(O|I) + [1-P(I)] P(O|N) } = (P(I) * 1/60) / { P(I) * 1/60 + [1-P(I)] * 1/190 }. P(I|O) ≈ 3 P(I) / [1 + 2 P(I)}. If it were a 50/50 probability for inverted hierarchy before, then 75% probability that the hierarchy is inverted afterward. If no oscillations an equal possibility, then If you were 33% sure before, you'd be 60% sure afterwards
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Conclusions SiC X grains enriched in ν-process material have the potential to solve the neutrino mass hierarchy problem for finite θ 13. An analysis of only 7 grains indicates that the inverted hierarchy is preferred over normal hierarchy by 75/25. An analysis of even a few more grains could provide a detection of ν-process 7 Li and substantially improve these limits.
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Neutrino Flavor vs Mass Eigenstates
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Composition of SiC grains SiC X grains exhibit 12 C/ 13 C > Solar, 14 N/ 15 N < Solar, enhanced 28 Si, Decay of 26 Al (t 1/2 = 7x10 5 yr) and 44 Ti (t 1/2 = 60 yr) => origin in Core Collapse Supernovae Mainstream SiC grains have – 12 C/ 13 C or ~Solar => origin in AGB stars (Hoppe et al. 1994).
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