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Inside dense neutrino gases, such as neutron star mergers or core-collapse supernovae, collective neutrino effects cause the transformation of one neutrino flavour into another. Due to strong neutrino self-interactions in these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Shvetaank Tripathi , Sandeep Joshi , Garima Rajpoot , Prashant Shukla

A few seconds after bounce in a core-collapse supernova, the shock wave passes the density region corresponding to resonant neutrino oscillations with the ``atmospheric'' neutrino mass difference. The transient violation of the adiabaticity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Tomas , M. Kachelriess , G. Raffelt , A. Dighe , H. -T. Janka , L. Scheck

In the early universe or in some regions of supernovae, the neutrino refractive index is dominated by the neutrinos themselves. Several previous studies have found numerically that these self-interactions have the effect of coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 S. Pastor , G. G. Raffelt , D. V. Semikoz

Core collapse supernovae are unique laboratories to study many aspects of neutrino physics. The vicinity of the proto-neutron star in a core-collapse supernova is characterized by large matter and neutrino densities. A salient feature of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. B. Balantekin

I shall review some of the recent results concerning the astrophysics of a core collapse supernova (SN) and neutrino oscillations. Neutrinos play an important role in the SN explosion, and they also carry most of the energy of the collapse.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Amol Dighe

Neutrinos and antineutrinos emitted from a core collapse supernova interact among themselves, giving rise to collective flavor conversion effects that are significant near the neutrinosphere. We develop a formalism to analyze these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-21 Basudeb Dasgupta , Amol Dighe

Neutrinos emitted during stellar core collapse leading to a supernova are primarily of the electron neutrino type at source which may undergo oscillation between flavor eigenstates during propagation to an earth-bound detector. Although the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Debasish Majumdar , Kamales Kar , Alak Ray , Amitava Raychaudhuri , Firoza K. Sutaria

The observation of PeV neutrinos is an open window to study New Physics processes. Among all possible neutrino observables, the neutrino flavor composition can reveal underlying interactions during the neutrino propagation. We study the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-25 R. A. Lineros

Neutrinos are excellent probes of the inner structures of supernovas. However, an understanding of their dynamics remains incomplete, which is crucial for properly interpreting the detector data. The huge matter density inside a core…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 Indrajit Ghose , Amitabha Lahiri

The study of supernova neutrinos result an interesting non-linear phenomenon, consisting of three phases: synchronized oscillation phase, bipolar flavor conversion phase and the phase of spectral split. In the collective oscillation of…

General Physics · Physics 2015-09-17 Indranath Bhattacharyya

Recent theoretical work indicates that the neutrino radiation in core-collapse supernovae may be susceptible to flavor instabilities that set in far behind the shock, grow extremely rapidly, and have the potential to profoundly affect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-18 Lucas Johns , Hiroki Nagakura , George M. Fuller , Adam Burrows

There is an accepted approach to calculation of the neutrino flavor density-matrix in the halo of a supernova, in which neutrino amplitudes, not cross-sections, need to be followed carefully in the region above the region of frequent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-08 Raymond F. Sawyer

Neutrino interactions with matter play an important role in determining the nucleosynthesis outcome in explosive astrophysical environments such as core-collapse supernovae or mergers of compact objects. In this article, we first discuss…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 Meng-Ru Wu , Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo , Yong-Zhong Qian

If neutrinos have self-interactions, these will induce scatterings between astrophysical and cosmic neutrinos. Prior work proposed to look for possible resulting resonance features in astrophysical neutrino spectra in order to seek a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-27 Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski , Jeffrey Hyde , Marc Kamionkowski

The emergent phenomenon of collective neutrino oscillations arises from neutrino-neutrino interactions in environments with very large number of neutrinos. Since such environments are likely sites of the heavy-element synthesis,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-05-23 A. B. Balantekin

Neutrino self-interactions are known to lead to non-linear collective flavor oscillations in a core-collapse supernova. We point out new possible effects of non-standard self-interactions (NSSI) of neutrinos on flavor conversions in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-05 Anirban Das , Amol Dighe , Manibrata Sen

Neutrinos propagating in dense neutrino media such as core-collapse supernovae and neutron star merger remnants can experience the so-called fast flavor conversions on scales much shorter than those expected in vacuum. A very generic class…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-31 Sajad Abbar , Francesco Capozzi

Neutrinos are densely populated deep inside the core of massive stars after their gravitational collapse to produce supernova explosions and form compact stars such as neutron stars (NS) and black holes (BH). It has been considered that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-29 Milad Delfan Azari , Shoichi Yamada , Taiki Morinaga , Wakana Iwakami , Hirotada Okawa , Hiroki Nagakura , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi

Neutrino masses and mixings produce vacuum oscillations, an established quantum mechanical phenomenon. In matter, the Mikheev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect, due to neutrino interactions with the background particles, triggers resonant flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-11 M. Cristina Volpe

The neutrino flux close to a supernova core contributes substantially to neutrino refraction so that flavor oscillations become a nonlinear phenomenon. One unexpected consequence is efficient flavor transformation for anti-neutrinos in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergio Pastor , Georg Raffelt