Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 9-20-2006
Publication Title
The Astrophysical Journal
Volume
649
Issue
1
Publisher
The American Astronomical Society
Abstract
Neutrion oscillations affect light-element synthesis through the v-process in supernova explosions. The 7Li and 11B yields produced in a supernova explosion of a 16.2 M ⊙ star model increase by factors of 1.9 and 1.3 in the case of the large mixing angle solution with a normal mass hierarchy of sin^2 2θ13 >~ 2x10^-3 compared with those without the oscillations. In the case of an inerted mass hierarchy or a nonadiabatic 1-3 mixing resonance, the increment of their yields is much smaller. Neutrino oscillations raise the reaction rates of charged-current v-process reactions in the region outside oxygen-rich layers. The number ration of 6Li/11B could be a tracer of a normal mass hierarchy and relatively large θ13, still satisfying sing^2 2θ13<~0.1, though future precise obervations in stars having strong supernova components.
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This manuscript has been published in the Astrophysical Journal. Please find the published version here (note that a subscription is necessary to access this version): http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/649/1/319