Supernova prompt neutronization neutrinos and neutrino magnetic moments
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✦ hep-ph
astro-phhep-ex
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magneticmomentssupernovaconversionsmixingneutrinoneutrinosneutronization
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It is shown that the combined action of spin-flavor conversions of supernova neutrinos due to the interactions of their Majorana-type transition magnetic moments with the supernova magnetic fields and flavor conversions due to the mass mixing can lead to the transformation of \nu_e born in the neutronization process into their antiparticles \bar{\nu}_e. Such an effect would have a clear experimental signature and its observation would be a smoking gun evidence for the neutrino transition magnetic moments. It would also signify the leptonic mixing parameter |U_{e3}| in excess of 10^{-2}.
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