Neutrino mass bound in the standard scenario for supernova electronic antineutrino emission

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Based on recent improvements of the supernova electron antineutrino emission model, we update the limit on neutrino mass from the SN1987A data collected by Kamiokande-II, IMB and Baksan.

• We derive the limit of 5.8 eV at 95 % CL, that we show to be remarkably insensitive to the astrophysical uncertainties.
• Also we evaluate the ultimate mass sensitivity of this method for a detector like Super-Kamiokande.
• We find that the bound lies in the sub-eV region, 0.8 eV at 95 % CL being a typical outcome, competitive with the values that are presently probed in laboratory.