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Matter Neutrino Resonances (MNRs) can drastically modify neutrino flavor evolution in astrophysical environments and may significantly impact nucleosynthesis. Here we further investigate the underlying physics of MNR type flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-01 D. Vaananen , G. C. McLaughlin

Neutrino flavor instabilities appear to be omnipresent in dense astrophysical environments, thus presenting a challenge to large-scale simulations of core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers (NSMs). Subgrid models offer a path…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-27 Sherwood Richers , Julien Froustey , Somdutta Ghosh , Francois Foucart , Javier Gomez

The neutrino fast flavor instability dominates the evolution of neutrino flavor within the engines of core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. However, theoretical models of neutrino flavor change that include many-body quantum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-22 Zoha Laraib , Sherwood Richers

Neutrinos can rapidly change flavor in the inner dense regions of core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers due to the neutrino fast flavor instability. If the amount of flavor transformation is significant, the FFI could…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-13 Sherwood Richers

We study two-flavor collective neutrino oscillations in the dense-neutrino region above the neutrino sphere in a supernova (SN). The angular dependence of the neutrino-neutrino interaction potential causes "multi-angle" effects that can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Andreu Esteban-Pretel , Sergio Pastor , Ricard Tomas , Georg Raffelt , Gunter Sigl

In environments with high dense neutrino gases, such as in core-collapse supernovae, the neutrinos can experience collective neutrino oscillation due to their self-interactions. In particular, fast flavor conversion driven by the crossings…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-01 Masamichi Zaizen , Taiki Morinaga

The neutrino fast flavor instability (FFI) can change neutrino flavor on time scales of nanoseconds and length scales of centimeters. It is expected to be ubiquitous in core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers, potentially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-27 Sherwood Richers , Manibrata Sen

Neutrino-neutrino interactions can lead to collective flavor conversion in the dense parts of a core collapse supernova. Growing instabilities that lead to collective conversions have been studied intensely in the limit of two-neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-07 Christian Döring , Rasmus S. L. Hansen , Manfred Lindner

We assess the occurrence of fast neutrino flavor instabilities in two three-dimensional state-of-the-art core-collapse supernova simulations performed using a two-moment three-species neutrino transport scheme: one with an exploding…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Sajad Abbar , Francesco Capozzi , Robert Glas , H. -Thomas Janka , Irene Tamborra

If there are scalar particles of small or moderate mass coupled very weakly to Dirac neutrinos, in a minimal way, then neutrino-anti-neutrino clouds of sufficient number density can experience an instability in which helicities are suddenly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 R. F. Sawyer

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

It was recently realized that three-flavor effects could peculiarly modify the development of spectral splits induced by collective oscillations, for supernova neutrinos emitted during the cooling phase of a protoneutron star. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Basudeb Dasgupta , Alessandro Mirizzi , Irene Tamborra , Ricard Tomas

Flavor instabilities in dense neutrino media trigger exponential growth of flavor waves, yet their nonlinear saturation remains poorly understood. We examine a simple proxy for this effect in the form of a single-wave solution of an axially…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-28 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Georg G. Raffelt

The influence of neutrino flavor oscillations on the propagation of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and instabilities is studied in neutrino-beam driven magnetoplasmas. Using the neutrino MHD model, a general dispersion relation is derived…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 D. Chatterjee , A. P. Misra , S. Ghosh

Fast and collisional flavor instabilities possibly occur in the neutrino decoupling regions of core-collapse supernovae and neutron-star mergers. To gain a better understanding of the relevant flavor dynamics, we numerically solve for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-28 Lucas Johns , Zewei Xiong

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

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

In core-collapse supernovae, the neutrino density is so large that neutrino flavor instabilities, leading to flavor conversion, can be triggered by the forward scattering of neutrinos among each other, if a crossing between the angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-10 Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

Neutrinos are known to undergo flavor conversion among their three flavors. In the theoretical modeling of core-collapse supernova (CCSN), there has been a great deal of attention to recent discoveries of a new type of neutrino flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-14 Jiabao Liu , Hiroki Nagakura , Ryuichiro Akaho , Akira Ito , Masamichi Zaizen , Shun Furusawa , Shoichi Yamada

Dense neutrino gases can exhibit collective flavor instabilities, triggering large flavor conversions that are driven primarily by neutrino-neutrino refraction. One broadly distinguishes between fast instabilities that exist in the limit of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-24 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Georg G. Raffelt