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Active-sterile neutrino transformation solution for r-process nucleosynthesis
- Author(s): McLaughlin, GC
- Fetter, JM
- Balantekin, AB
- Fuller, GM
- et al.
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.59.2873Abstract
We discuss how matter-enhanced active-sterile neutrino transformation in the [Formula Presented] and [Formula Presented] channels could enable the production of the rapid neutron capture [Formula Presented]-process) nuclei in neutrino-heated supernova ejecta. In this scheme the lightest sterile neutrino would be heavier than the [Formula Presented] and split from it by a vacuum mass-squared difference of [Formula Presented] with vacuum mixing angle [Formula Presented] © 1999 The American Physical Society.