Resonant Spin-Flavor Precession of Sterile Neutrinos
Author:
Edward Wang
Keyword:
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
journal:
TUM-HEP-1448/22
date:
2023-12-05 00:00:00
Abstract
We analyze the impact of resonant conversions mediated by non-vanishing magnetic moments between active neutrinos and a heavy sterile neutrino on the supernova neutrino flux. We present the level-crossing scheme for such a scenario and derive the neutrino fluxes after conversion, paying special attention to the order in which the resonances occur. We then compute the expected event rates from the neutronization burst of a future supernova at DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande to derive new constraints on the neutrino magnetic moment. With this, we find a sensitivity down to a few $10^{-15} \mu_B$ for a sterile neutrino in the $O(\rm{eV})$ mass range.