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The measurement of the flavor composition of the neutrino fluxes from astrophysical sources has been proposed as a method to study not only the nature of their emission mechanisms, but also the neutrino fundamental properties. It is however…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Paolo Lipari , Maurizio Lusignoli , Davide Meloni

Slow flavor evolution (defined as driven by neutrino masses and not necessarily ``slow'') is receiving fresh attention in the context of compact astrophysical environments. In Part~I of this series, we have studied the slow-mode dispersion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-03 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Georg G. Raffelt

Analysis of the massive star properties during C, Ne, O and Si burning i.e. the neutrino-cooled stage, leads to the simplified neutrino emission model. In the framework of this model we have simulated spectrum of the antineutrinos. Flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Odrzywolek , M. Misiaszek , M. Kutschera

Neutrino evolution, of great importance in environments such as neutron star mergers (NSMs) because of their impact on explosive nucleosynthesis, is still poorly understood due to the high complexity and variety of possible flavor…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-15 Julien Froustey , Sherwood Richers , Evan Grohs , Samuel D. Flynn , Francois Foucart , James P. Kneller , Gail C. McLaughlin

Neutrino flux streaming from a supernova can undergo rapid flavor conversions almost immediately above the core. Focusing on this region, we study these fast conversions using a linear stability analysis. We find that, for realistic angular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-23 Manibrata Sen

Determining where, when, and how neutrino flavor oscillations must be included in large-scale simulations of hot and dense astrophysical environments is an enduring challenge that must be tackled to obtain accurate predictions. Using an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Julien Froustey , Francois Foucart , Christian Hall , James P. Kneller , Debraj Kundu , Zidu Lin , Gail C. McLaughlin , Sherwood Richers

The streaming of neutrinos in an inhomogeneous medium is known to affect the physics of flavor conversion. We employ an ensemble of single-crossed angular distributions and explore the physics of flavor conversion, while neutrinos propagate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Manuel Goimil-García , Irene Tamborra

Flavor instabilities develop in neutrino plasmas through emission of flavomons, the quanta of flavor waves. We derive the flavomon equations of motion in slowly varying environments, notably the matter gradients of supernovae, and use them…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-22 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Georg G. Raffelt

Rapid progress has been made during recent years in the understanding of the flavour oscillations that occur as neutrinos traverse through supernova. The previous paradigm has given way and it is now clear that the neutrino signals we shall…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-07-19 Huaiyu Duan , James P Kneller

We implement a multi-group and discrete-ordinate neutrino transport model in spherical symmetry which allows to simulate collective neutrino oscillations by including realistic collisional rates in a self-consistent way. We utilize this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-13 Zewei Xiong , Meng-Ru Wu , Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo , Tobias Fischer , Manu George , Chun-Yu Lin , Lucas Johns

We examine neutrino evolution in astrophysical environments where the neutrino flux is very large, including core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. In these environments, the neutrino-neutrino and neutrino-antineutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-13 Joseph Carlson , Alessandro Roggero , Duff Neill

We revisit our previous results on the matter suppression of self-induced neutrino flavor conversions during a supernova (SN) accretion phase, performing a linearized stability analysis of the neutrino equations of motion, in the presence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Ninetta Saviano , Sovan Chakraborty , Tobias Fischer , Alessandro Mirizzi

Neutrinos drive core-collapse supernovae, launch outflows from neutron star merger accretion disks, and set the ratio of protons to neutrons in ejecta from both systems that generate heavy elements in the universe. Neutrinos of different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-05 Sherwood Richers , Don E. Willcox , Nicole M. Ford , Andrew Myers

Neutrinos in a core-collapse supernova undergo coherent flavor transformations in their own background. We explore this phenomenon during the cooling stage of the explosion. Our three-flavor calculations reveal qualitatively new effects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-25 Alexander Friedland

We examine the propagation and flavor oscillations of neutrinos under the influence of gravitational waves (GWs) with an arbitrary polarization. We rederive the effective Hamiltonian for the system of three neutrino flavors using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-24 Maxim Dvornikov

Observing a high-statistics neutrino signal from a galactic supernova (SN) would allow one to test the standard delayed explosion scenario and may allow one to distinguish between the normal and inverted neutrino mass ordering due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Georg G. Raffelt

We consider a simplifed model for self-induced flavor conversions of a dense neutrino gas in two dimensions, showing new solutions that spontaneously break the spatial symmetries of the initial conditions. As a result of the symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-29 Alessandro Mirizzi , Gianpiero Mangano , Ninetta Saviano

It has been recently shown that the flavor composition of a self-interacting neutrino gas can spontaneously acquire a time-dependent pulsating component during its flavor evolution. In this work, we perform a more detailed study of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-26 Francesco Capozzi , Basudeb Dasgupta , Alessandro Mirizzi

The usual treatments of the neutrino flavor-evolution, beyond a surface above the last scattering, assume identical angular distributions at this distance for the different initial (unmixed) flavors, and for particles and antiparticles.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-02 R. F. Sawyer

Bearing in mind the application to the theory of core-collapse supernovae, we performed a global linear analysis on the stability of spherically symmetric accretion flows through a standing shock wave onto a proto neutron star. As…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tatsuya Yamasaki , Shoichi Yamada