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Lifting the core-collapse supernova bounds on keV-mass sterile neutrinos

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2020/08/018

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core-collapse supernovas; neutrino properties; supernova neutrinos

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  1. Villum Foundation [13164]
  2. Carlsberg Foundation [CF18-0183]
  3. Knud Hjgaard Foundation
  4. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [Sonderforschungbereich SFB 1258]
  5. Academia Sinica [AS-CDA-109-M11]
  6. Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan [108-2112-M-001-010]
  7. Physics Division, National Center of Theoretical Science of Taiwan

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We explore the energy and entropy transport as well as the lepton number variation induced from the mixing between electron and sterile neutrinos with keV mass in the supernova core. We develop a radial- and time-dependent treatment of the nu(s)-nu(e) mixing, by including ordinary matter effects, reconversions between sterile and electron antineutrinos, as well as the collisional production of sterile particles for the first time. The dynamical feedback due to the production of sterile particles on the composition and thermodynamic properties of the core only leads to major implications for the supernova physics for large mixing angles (sin(2) 2 theta greater than or similar to 10(-10)) Our findings suggest that a self-consistent appraisal of the electron-sterile conversion physics in the supernova core would relax the bounds on the sterile neutrino mixing parameters reported in the literature for sin(2) 2 theta less than or similar to 10(-6), leaving the (m(s), sin(2) 2 theta) parameter space relevant to dark matter searches unconstrained by supernovae.

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