Oscillations of Majorana neutrinos in supernova and CP violation

TL;DR

This paper investigates how Majorana neutrinos oscillate in supernova environments, revealing new resonances influenced by CP violation and magnetic fields, which could help determine neutrino nature and CP violation in future experiments.

Contribution

It extends previous work by analyzing energy dependence of Majorana neutrino oscillation resonances in supernovae, highlighting their potential for probing neutrino properties.

Findings

Identification of new energy-dependent resonances in Majorana neutrino oscillations.

Potential for astrophysical observations to determine neutrino mass nature and CP violation.

Implications for future neutrino experiments like JUNO, Hyper-Kamiokande, and DUNE.

Abstract

Leptonic CP violation is one of the most important topics in neutrino physics. CP violation in the neutrino sector is strongly related to the nature of neutrinos: whether they are Dirac or Majorana particles. In \cite{Popov:2021icg} we have shown that for Majorana neutrinos appearance of nonzero Majorana CP-violating phases combined with strong magnetic field during supernova core-collapse can induce new resonances in neutrino oscillations, for example in $\nu_e \to \bar{\nu}_\tau$ channel. In this paper we further study new resonances in Majorana neutrino oscillations, in particular energy dependence of amplitudes of resonant oscillations. Our findings suggest a potential astrophysical setup for studying the nature of neutrino masses and leptonic CP violation and may be important for future neutrino experiments, such as JUNO, Hyper-Kamiokande and DUNE.