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We present a new series of supernova neutrino light curves and spectra calculated by numerical simulations for a variety of progenitor stellar masses (13-50Msolar) and metallicities (Z = 0.02 and 0.004), which would be useful for a broad…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-19 Ken'ichiro Nakazato , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Hideyuki Suzuki , Tomonori Totani , Hideyuki Umeda , Shoichi Yamada

The production of heavy-mass elements due to the rapid neutron-capture mechanism (r-process) is associated with astrophysical scenarios, such as supernovae and neutron-star mergers. In the r-process the capture of neutrons is followed by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-10 M. M. Saez , K. J. Fushimi , M. E. Mosquera , O. Civitarese

A protoneutron star produced in a core-collapse supernova (CCSN) drives a wind by its intense neutrino emission. We implement active-sterile neutrino oscillations in a steady-state model of this neutrino-driven wind to study their effects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-28 Zewei Xiong , Meng-Ru Wu , Yong-Zhong Qian

Recent experimental data and progress in nuclear structure modeling have lead to improved descriptions of astrophysically important weak-interaction processes. The review discusses these advances and their applications to hydrostatic solar…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Langanke , G. Martinez-Pinedo

Neutrinos, being massive, can decay. A heavier neutrino could decay into a lighter one and a massless scalar or pseudoscalar boson, such as the Majoron. Two-body non-radiative decay could occur in dense matter, such as in the inner dense…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-30 Pilar Iváñez-Ballesteros , M. Cristina Volpe

Using the Hellmann--Feynman theorem we analyze the contribution of the different terms of the nucleon-nucleon interaction to the spin symmetry energy of neutron matter. The analysis is performed within the microscopic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-08 Isaac Vidana , Artur Polls , Victoria Durant

For neutrinos with a magnetic moment, we show that the collisions in a hot and dense plasma act as an efficient mechanism for the conversion of $\nu_L$ into $\nu_R$. The production rate for right-handed neutrinos is computed in terms of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alejandro Ayala , Juan Carlos D'Olivo , Manuel Torres

We develop the theory of spin light of neutrino in matter ($SL\nu$) and include the effect of plasma influence on the emitted photon. We use the special technique based on exact solutions of particles wave equations in matter to perform all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Grigoriev , A. Lokhov , A. Studenikin , A. Ternov

Neutrinos play a critical role of transporting energy and changing the lepton density within core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. The quantum kinetic equations (QKEs) combine the effects of neutrino-matter interactions treated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-13 Sherwood A. Richers , Gail C. McLaughlin , James P. Kneller , Alexey Vlasenko

We present a new method of calculating the rate of neutrino-electron interactions in a strong magnetic field based on finite temperature field theory. Using this method, in which the effect of the magnetic field on the electron states is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Stephen J. Hardy , Markus H. Thoma

Multi-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of the post-bounce evolution of collapsed stellar iron cores have demonstrated that convective overturn between the stalled shock and the neutrinosphere can have an important effect on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. -Th. Janka

Neutrino transport and neutrino interactions in dense matter play a crucial role in stellar core collapse, supernova explosions and neutron star formation. Here we present a detailed description of a new numerical code for treating the time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Markus Rampp , H. -Thomas Janka

We studied possible modifications of the neutrino - nucleon scattering rate due to the nucleon - nucleon collisions in the hot dense matter which we find in the supernova core. We show that the finite width of the nucleon spectral function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Shoichi Yamada

We perform simulations of the Kelvin-Helmholtz cooling phase of proto-neutron stars with a new numerical code in spherical symmetry and using the quasi-static approximation. We use for the first time the full set of charged-current…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 A Pascal , J Novak , M Oertel

Neutrinos -- amongst the lightest known particles -- can mediate a force driving dark matter self-interaction and the small scale structure of the universe. We explore such a possibility in the simplest neutrino portal dark sector model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-08 Yue Zhang

We have studied mixing and masses of three left handed Majorana neutrinos in the model, which assumes exactly degenerate neutrino masses at some "neutrino unification" scale. Such a simple theoretical ansatz naturally leads to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. Ioannisian , N. A. Kazarian

Neutrino emission drives neutron star cooling for the first several hundreds of years after its birth. Given the low energy ($\sim$ keV) nature of this process, one expects very few nonstandard particle physics contributions which could…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Prashanth Jaikumar , K. R. S. Balaji , Charles Gale

Recent experimental advances in ultrafast science put different processes occurring on the electronic timescale below a few femtoseconds in focus. In the present theoretical work, we demonstrate how the transformation and propagation of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Thies Romig , Vladislav Kochetov , Sergey I. Bokarev

We would like to discuss prospects for neutrino observations of the core-collapse supernova progenitor during neutrino-cooled stage. We will present new theoretical results on thermal neutrino and antineutrino spectra produced deep inside…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-27 A. Odrzywolek , M. Misiaszek , M. Kutschera

We study the equation of state of neutron matter at finite temperature based on two- and three-nucleon interactions derived within chiral effective field theory to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order. The free energy, pressure, entropy,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-18 J. Keller , C. Wellenhofer , K. Hebeler , A. Schwenk