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arxiv: hep-ph/0310119 · v4 · submitted 2003-10-09 · ✦ hep-ph · astro-ph· hep-ex

Supernova prompt neutronization neutrinos and neutrino magnetic moments

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keywords 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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