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Quantum decoherence effects in neutrinos, described by the open quantum systems formalism, serve as a gateway to explore potential new physics, including quantum gravity. Previous research extensively investigated these effects across…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-12 Marcos V. dos Santos , Pedro C. de Holanda , Pedro Dedin Neto , Ernesto Kemp

In many theories of quantum gravity quantum fluctuations of spacetime may serve as an environment for decoherence. Here we study quantum-gravitational decoherence of high energy astrophysical neutrinos in the presence of fermionic dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-26 Dominik Hellmann , Heinrich Päs , Erika Rani

In this paper we study the dynamics of flavor transformation for neutrinos propagating in the very dense environment of astrophysical compact objects as Type II supernova in post collapse phase and proto-neutron stars. The analysis is based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-23 Marcello Baldo , Vincenzo Palmisano

The most general case of self-induced neutrino flavor evolution is described by a set of kinetic equations for a dense neutrino gas evolving both in space and time. Solutions of these equations have been typically worked out assuming that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Gianpiero Mangano , Alessandro Mirizzi , Ninetta Saviano

We perform numerical simulations of fast collective neutrino flavor conversions in an one-dimensional box mimicking a system with the periodic boundary condition in one spatial direction and translation symmetry in the other two dimensions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-09 Meng-Ru Wu , Manu George , Chun-Yu Lin , Zewei Xiong

We argue that the small fraction of neutrinos that undergo direction-changing scattering outside of the neutrinosphere could have significant influence on neutrino flavor transformation in core-collapse supernova environments. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-07-31 John F. Cherry , J. Carlson , Alexander Friedland , George M. Fuller , Alexey Vlasenko

Neutrinos are expected to freestream (i.e. not interact with anything) since they decouple in the early Universe at a temperature $T\sim 2~{\rm MeV}$. However, there are many relevant particle physics scenarios that can make neutrinos…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Petter Taule , Miguel Escudero , Mathias Garny

Neutrinos undergoing stochastic perturbations as they propagate experience decoherence, damping neutrino oscillations over distance. Such perturbations may result from fluctuations in space-time itself if gravity is a quantum force,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-19 Thomas Stuttard , Mikkel Jensen

We present the first numerical relativity simulations including neutrino flavor transformations that could result from flavor instabilities, quantum many-body effects, or potential beyond standard model physics in neutron star mergers. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-08 Yi Qiu , David Radice , Sherwood Richers , Maitraya Bhattacharyya

An extension of the New Standard Model, by introducing a mixing of the low mass ``active'' neutrinos with heavy ones, or by any model with lepton flavor violation, is considered. This leads to non-orthogonal neutrino production and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Holeczek , J. Kisiel , J. Syska , M. Zralek

We review the distortions of spectra of relic neutrinos due to the interactions with electrons, positrons, and neutrinos in the early universe. We solve integro-differential kinetic equations for the neutrino density matrix, including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-05 Kensuke Akita , Masahide Yamaguchi

We consider the decoherence effects in the propagation of active neutrinos due to the non-forward neutrino scattering processes in a matter background composed of electrons and nucleons. We calculate the contribution to the imaginary part…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 José F. Nieves , Sarira Sahu

The observation of Earth matter effects in the spectrum of neutrinos coming from a next galactic core-collapse supernova (CCSN) could, in principle, reveal if neutrino mass ordering is normal or inverted. One of the possible ways to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-12 Edwin A. Delgado , Hiroshi Nunokawa , Alexander A. Quiroga

Neutrino physics in the early Universe is key to our understanding of later cosmological stages, such as primordial nucleosynthesis (BBN) or the formation of large-scale structures. The coming decade promises new experimental results to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-15 Julien Froustey

We study post weak decoupling coherent active-sterile and active-active matter-enhanced neutrino flavor transformation in the early universe. We show that flavor conversion efficiency at Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein resonances is likely to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-27 Kevork Abazajian , Nicole F. Bell , George M. Fuller , Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

Quantum kinetics of neutrinos are known to potentially change the classical neutrino radiation field in high-energy astrophysical sources such as core-collapse supernovae and binary neutron-star mergers. However, the mixing phenomena still…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-22 Masamichi Zaizen

The flavor of cosmic neutrinos may help unveil their sources and could reveal the presence of new physics in the neutrino sector. We consider the impacts of next-generation neutrino detectors, including the planned upgrade to neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-13 Ian M. Shoemaker , Kohta Murase

After a brief introduction to the concept of entanglement in quantum systems, I apply these ideas to many-body systems and show that the von Neumann entropy is an effective way of characterising the entanglement between the degrees of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 John Cardy

We study the decoherence of a renormalised quantum field theoretical system. We consider our novel correlator approach to decoherence where entropy is generated by neglecting observationally inaccessible correlators. Using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-22 Jurjen F. Koksma , Tomislav Prokopec , Michael G. Schmidt

There is renewed attention to whether we can observe the decoherence effect in neutrino oscillation due to the separation of wave packets with different masses in near-future experiments. As a contribution to this endeavor, we extend the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-18 Haruhi Mitani , Kin-ya Oda