Fission cycling in supernova nucleosynthesis: Active-sterile neutrino oscillations

J. Beun, G. C. McLaughlin, R. Surman, W. R. Hix

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Abstract

We investigate nucleosynthesis in the supernova post-core bounce neutrino-driven wind environment in the presence of active-sterile neutrino transformation. We consider active-sterile neutrino oscillations for a range of mixing parameters: vacuum mass-squared differences of 0. 1eV2≤δm2≤100eV2, and vacuum mixing angles of sin 22θv≥10-4. We find a consistent r-process pattern for a large range of mixing parameters that is in rough agreement with the halo star CS 22892-052 abundances and the pattern shape is determined by fission cycling. We find that the allowed region for the formation of the r-process peaks overlaps the liquid scintillator neutron detector (LSND) and null-short baseline (NSBL) (3+1) allowed region.

Original languageEnglish
Article number093007
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume73
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006

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