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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

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

In core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers, the neutrino density is so large that neutrino-neutrino refraction can lead to flavor conversion, if a zero-crossing is present in the neutrino flavor lepton number (FLN) angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-24 Pedro Dedin Neto , Irene Tamborra , Shashank Shalgar

We derive a series of moment equations describing the motion and flavor transformation of neutrinos in supernova. We find a particular series of moments of neutrino density matrix in supernova. The emission angle distribution of neutrinos…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-23 Wei Liao

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

Neutrino flavor conversion is assumed to be induced by right-handed neutrino flavor conversion via seesaw mechanism. Neutrino oscillation is the macroscopic phenomenon before all neutrino flavor-flip interactions reaching equilibrium. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-18 Xiao-Yan Wang , Xiang-Jun Chen

Non-linear effects on supernova neutrino oscillations, associated with neutrino self-interactions, are known to induce collective flavor transitions near the supernova core for theta_13 \neq 0. In scenarios with very shallow electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-07 G. L. Fogli , E. Lisi , A. Marrone , A. Mirizzi

The upcoming galactic core-collapse supernova is expected to produce a considerable number of neutrino events within terrestrial detectors. By using Bayesian inference techniques, we address the feasibility of distinguishing among various…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-22 Sajad Abbar , Maria Cristina Volpe

A neutrino propagating through fluctuating matter can experience large amplitude transitions between its states. Such transitions occur in supernovae and compact object mergers due to turbulent matter profiles and neutrino…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Yue Yang , James P. Kneller

In an environment with high-density neutrinos formed in a core-collapse supernova (CCSN), the neutrinos exhibit nonlinear and complex oscillation behaviors due to their self-interactions. The onset of this nonlinear oscillation can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-28 Taiki Morinaga

The impact of neutrino flavor conversion on the supernova mechanism is yet to be fully understood. We present multi-energy and multi-angle solutions of the neutrino quantum kinetic equations in three flavors, without employing any…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-15 Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

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

We investigate the collective neutrino oscillations under the three flavor multi-angle approximation in a spherically symmetric simulation of failed supernovae. A failed supernova emits high neutrino fluxes in a short time, while intense…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-19 Masamichi Zaizen , Takashi Yoshida , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Hideyuki Umeda

Neutrinos in supernovae, neutron stars, and in the early Universe may change flavor collectively and unstably, due to neutrino-neutrino forward-scattering. We prove that for collective instability to occur, the difference of momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-09 Basudeb Dasgupta

We investigate the neutrino flavor change effects due to neutrino self-interaction, shock wave propagation as well as matter effect on the neutrino-process of the core-collapsing supernova (CCSN). For the hydrodynamics, we use two models: a…

In an interacting neutrino gas, flavor coherence becomes dynamical and can propagate as a collective mode. In particular, tachyonic instabilities can appear, leading to "fast flavor conversion" that is independent of neutrino masses and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Francesco Capozzi , Georg Raffelt , Tobias Stirner

Several recent numerical studies have examined the effects of neutrino neutral-current scattering on fast flavor conversion (FFC). Those studies are in apparent conflict, with some finding enhancement of flavor conversion and others finding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-14 Lucas Johns , Hiroki Nagakura

It has been recently discovered that removing the axial symmetry in the "multi-angle effects" associated with the neutrino-neutrino interactions for supernova (SN) neutrinos, a new multi-azimuthal-angle (MAA) instability would trigger…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Sovan Chakraborty , Alessandro Mirizzi

Neutrinos play pivotal roles in determining fluid dynamics, nucleosynthesis, and their observables in core-collapse supernova (CCSN) and binary neutron star merger (BNSM). In this paper, we present a novel phenomenon, collisional flavor…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-03 Chinami Kato , Hiroki Nagakura , Lucas Johns

Simulations of neutrino flavor evolution in compact merger environments have shown that neutrino flavor, and hence nucleosynthesis, can be strongly affected by the presence of matter-neutrino resonances (MNRs), where there is a cancelation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 A. Vlasenko , G. C. McLaughlin