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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…

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The phenomenon of neutrino oscillations has been established as the leading mechanism behind neutrino flavor transitions, providing solid experimental evidence that neutrinos are massive and lepton flavors are mixed. Here we review…

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We assert that non-linear features of fast neutrino-flavor conversion (FFC) can be qualitatively different between core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and binary neutron star mergers (BNSMs). This argument arises from recent global FFC…

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Fast neutrino flavor conversion can occur in core-collapse supernovae or compact binary merger remnants when non-forward collisions are also at play, and neutrinos are not fully decoupled from matter. This work aims to shed light on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-10 Rasmus S. L. Hansen , Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

In dense neutrino backgrounds present in supernovae and in the early Universe, neutrino oscillations may exhibit complex collective phenomena, such as synchronized oscillations, bipolar oscillations and spectral splits and swaps. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-02 Evgeny Akhmedov , Joachim Kopp , Manfred Lindner

We examine coherent active-active channel neutrino flavor evolution in environments where neutrino-neutrino forward scattering can engender large-scale collective flavor transformation. We point out a key quantity, the "total effective…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Huaiyu Duan , George M. Fuller , Yong-Zhong Qian

Dense neutrino systems, which display collectivity mediated by the weak interaction, have deep parallels with mean-field kinetic systems governed by other fundamental forces. We identify analogues in fast flavor conversion (FFC) of some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Jiabao Liu , Lucas Johns , Hiroki Nagakura , Masamichi Zaizen , Shoichi Yamada

The evolution of neutrino flavor in dense environments such as core-collapse supernovae and binary compact object mergers constitutes an important and unsolved problem. Its solution has potential implications for the dynamics and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-29 Ermal Rrapaj , Amol V. Patwardhan , Eve Armstrong , George Fuller

We study the ratio of neutrino-proton elastic scattering to inverse beta decay event counts, measurable in a scintillation detector like JUNO, as a key observable for identifying the explosion mechanism of a galactic core-collapse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Nitsan Bar , Kfir Blum , Guido D'Amico

We review the rich phenomena associated with neutrino flavor transformation in the presence of neutrino self-coupling. Our exposition centers on three collective neutrino oscillation scenarios: a simple bipolar neutrino system that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-02 Huaiyu Duan , George M. Fuller , Yong-Zhong Qian

Neutrino-neutrino interactions in dense neutrino streams, like those emitted by a core-collapse supernova, can lead to self-induced neutrino flavor conversions. While this is a nonlinear phenomenon, the onset of these conversions can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-02 Arka Banerjee , Amol Dighe , Georg Raffelt

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

The strong gravitational field around a proto-neutron star can modify the neutrino flavor transformations that occur above the neutrinosphere via three General Relativistic (GR) effects: time dilation, energy redshift, and trajectory…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Yue Yang , James P. Kneller

Fast flavor conversions (FFCs) of neutrinos, which can occur in core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe), are multiangle effects. They depend on the angular distribution of the neutrino's electron lepton number (ELN). In this work, we present a…

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Neutrinos emitted in the coalescence of two neutron stars affect the dynamics of the outflow ejecta and the nucleosynthesis of heavy elements. In this work, we analyze the neutrino emission properties and the conditions leading to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-16 Manu George , Meng-Ru Wu , Irene Tamborra , Ricard Ardevol-Pulpillo , Hans-Thomas Janka

In dense neutrino backgrounds present in supernovae and in the early Universe neutrino oscillations may exhibit complex collective phenomena, such as synchronized oscillations, bipolar oscillations and spectral splits and swaps. We consider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-23 Evgeny Akhmedov , Alessandro Mirizzi

Collective oscillations of supernova neutrinos swap the electron neutrino and antineutrino spectra with those of another flavor in certain energy intervals bounded by sharp spectral splits. This phenomenon is far more general than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-02 Basudeb Dasgupta , Amol Dighe , Georg G. Raffelt , Alexei Yu. Smirnov

High energy astrophysical neutrinos carry relevant information about the origin and propagation of cosmic rays. They can be created as a by-product of the interactions of cosmic rays in the sources and during propagation of these high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. D. Supanitsky , G. Medina-Tanco

Core-collapse supernovae are among Nature's grandest explosions. They are powered by the energy released in gravitational collapse and include a rich set of physical phenomena involving all fundamental forces and many branches of physics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-29 C. D. Ott , E. P. O'Connor , B. Dasgupta

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