Beacom, J. F. and Boyd, R. N. and Mezzacappa, A. (2000) Technique for Direct eV-Scale Measurements of the Mu and Tau Neutrino Masses Using Supernova Neutrinos. Physical Review Letters, 85 (17). pp. 3568-3571. ISSN 0031-9007. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3568. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:BEAprl00
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Abstract
Early black hole formation in a core-collapse supernova will abruptly truncate the neutrino fluxes. The sharp cutoff can be used to make model-independent time-of-flight neutrino mass tests. Assuming a neutrino luminosity of 1052 erg/s per flavor at cutoff and a distance of 10 kpc, Super-Kamiokande can detect an electron neutrino mass as small as 1.8 eV, and the proposed OMNIS detector can detect mu and tau neutrino masses as small as 6 eV. We present the first technique with direct sensitivity to eV-scale mu and tau neutrino masses.
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Additional Information: | ©2000 The American Physical Society Received 1 June 2000 J.F.B. was supported by Caltech. R. N. B. was supported by NSF Grant No. PHY-9901241. A.M. is supported at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Dept. of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725. We thank Felix Boehm, Steve Bruenn, Will Farr, Josh Grindlay, Manoj Kaplinghat, Gail McLaughlin, Alex Murphy, Yong-Zhong Qian, Petr Vogel, and Jerry Wasserburg for discussions. | ||||||
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