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Here I review some nuclear physics aspects of core-collapse supernovae concerning neutrinos. Studies of neutrino emission and interactions in supernovae are crucial to our understanding of the explosion mechanism, the heavy element…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yong-Zhong Qian

Neutrinos emitted from a core-collapse supernova can experience collective flavor transformation because of high neutrino fluxes. As a result, neutrinos of different flavors can have their energy spectra (partially) swapped, a phenomenon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-21 Huaiyu Duan

These conference proceedings cover various aspects of neutrino propagation through the high matter and neutrino densities near the proto-neutron star in a core-collapse supernova. A significant feature of this regime is the impact of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-10 A. B. Balantekin

A core-collapse supernova will produce an enormous burst of neutrinos of all flavors in the few-tens-of-MeV range. Measurement of the flavor, time and energy structure of a nearby core-collapse neutrino burst will yield answers to many…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-20 Kate Scholberg

We consider for the first time R-parity violating interactions of the Minimal Standard Supersymmetric Model involving neutrinos and quarks (``flavor changing neutral currents'', FCNC's) in the infall stage of stellar collapse. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-23 Philip S. Amanik , George M. Fuller , Benjamin Grinstein

Neutrino-matter cross sections and interaction rates are central to the core-collapse supernova phenomenon and, very likely, to the viability of the explosion mechanism itself. In this paper, we describe the major neutrino scattering,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Adam Burrows , Sanjay Reddy , Todd A. Thompson

The formalism of flavor conversion of supernova neutrinos is generalized to include possible differences in the fluxes of the muon and tau neutrinos produced in the star. In this case the radiatively induced difference of the nu_mu and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Kh. Akhmedov , C. Lunardini , A. Yu. Smirnov

We study the effect of non-vanishing masses and mixings among neutrino flavours on the detection of neutrinos from stellar collapse by a water Cerenkov detector. We consider a realistic framework in which there are three neutrino flavours…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Gautam Dutta , D. Indumathi , M. V. N. Murthy , G. Rajasekaran

We give the first self-consistent calculation of the effect of the scattered neutrino halo on flavor evolution in supernovae. Our example case is an O-Ne-Mg core collapse supernova neutronization neutrino burst. We find that the addition of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-01 John F. Cherry , J. Carlson , Alexander Friedland , George M. Fuller , Alexey Vlasenko

The neutrino burst from a galactic supernova can help determine the neutrino mass hierarchy and $\theta_{13}$, and provide crucial information about supernova astrophysics. Here we review our current understanding of the neutrino burst,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Amol Dighe

The undetermined neutrino mass hierarchy may leave an observable imprint on the neutrino fluxes from a core-collapse supernova (SN). The interpretation of the observables, however, is subject to the uncertain SN models and the flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 S. H. Chiu , Chu-Ching Huang , Kwang-Chang Lai

Accurate neutrino transport is crucial for reliably modeling explosive astrophysical events like core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and neutron star mergers (NSMs). However, in these extremely neutrino-dense systems, flavor oscillations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-29 Lucas Johns , Sherwood Richers , Meng-Ru Wu

The neutrino burst from a core-collapse supernova can provide information about the star explosion mechanism and the mechanisms of proto neutron star cooling but also about the intrinsic properties of the neutrino such as flavor…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-10 Inés Gil-Botella

We highlight recent advances in neutrino astrophysics, the open issues and the interplay with neutrino properties. We emphasize the important progress in our understanding of neutrino flavor conversion in media. We discuss the case of solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-02 Cristina Volpe

Neutrino flavor transformations in core-collapse supernovae and binary neutron star mergers represent a complex and unsolved problem that is integral to our understanding of the dynamics and nucleosynthesis in these environments. The high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-02 Amol V. Patwardhan , Michael J. Cervia , Ermal Rrapaj , Pooja Siwach , A. B. Balantekin

The aim of these notes is to provide a brief review of the topic of neutrino astronomy and in particular of neutrinos from core collapse supernovae. They are addressed to a curious reader, beginning to work in a multidisciplinary area that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Flavio Cavanna , Maria Laura Costantini , Ornella Palamara , Francesco Vissani

The supernova neutrino flavor evolution in the presence of the non-trivial neutrino magnetic moment and strong magnetic field is numerically derived using the two-flavor and single-angle approximation. The novel properties of collective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-18 Ziyi Yuan , Yu-Feng Li , Xiang Zhou

Neutrino flavor evolution inside a core-collapse supernova is a topic of active research. The core of a supernova is an intense source of neutrinos and antineutrinos. Self-interaction among neutrinos (as well as antineutrinos) gives rise to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-20 Indrajit Ghose , Amitabha Lahiri

This talk summarizes our recent work which studied the impact of resonant neutrino conversion induced by some non-standard neutrino properties beyond mass and mixing, such as neutrino magnetic moment, lepton-flavor non-universality as well…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroshi Nunokawa

Core-collapse supernova neutrinos undergo a variety of phenomena when they travel from the high neutrino density region and large matter densities to the Earth. We perform analytical calculations of the supernova neutrino fluxes including…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Daavid Väänänen , Cristina Volpe