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Neutrinos experience collective flavor conversion in extreme astrophysical environments such as core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe). One manifestation of collective conversion is slow flavor conversion (SFC), which has recently attracted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-03 Ian Padilla-Gay , Heng-Hao Chen , Sajad Abbar , Meng-Ru Wu , Zewei Xiong

Providing an accurate modeling of neutrino physics in dense astrophysical environments such as binary neutron star mergers presents a challenge for hydrodynamic simulations. Nevertheless, understanding how flavor transformation can occur…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-15 Julien Froustey , Sherwood Richers , Evan Grohs , Samuel Flynn , Francois Foucart , James P. Kneller , Gail C. McLaughlin

Collective oscillations of supernova neutrinos above the neutrino sphere can be completely described by the propagation of individual neutrinos in external potentials and are in this sense a linear phenomenon. An effective theory of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-02 Rasmus S. L. Hansen , Alexei Yu. Smirnov

Collective neutrino oscillations play a crucial role in transporting lepton flavor in astrophysical settings like supernovae and neutron star binary merger remnants, which are characterized by large neutrino densities. In these settings,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-07 Alessandro Roggero , Ermal Rrapaj , Zewei Xiong

Numerical simulations of the supernova (SN) neutrino self-induced flavor conversions, associated with the neutrino-neutrino interactions in the deepest stellar regions, have been typically carried out assuming the "bulb-model". In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Alessandro Mirizzi , Pasquale Dario Serpico

In a core collapse supernova, collective oscillations of neutrinos emitted by the proto-neutron star significantly modifies the partition of energy between different flavors in a way which is potentially important for the nucleosynthesis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-29 T. Bulmus , Y. Pehlivan

The large neutrino density in the deep interior of core-collapse supernovae and compact binary merger remnants makes neutrino flavor evolution non-linear because of the coherent forward scattering of neutrinos among themselves. Under the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-16 Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

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

Collective flavor oscillations driven by neutrino-neutrino self interaction inside core-collapse supernovae have now been shown to bring drastic changes in the resultant neutrino fluxes. This would in turn significantly affect the diffuse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-29 Sovan Chakraborty , Sandhya Choubey , Basudeb Dasgupta , Kamales Kar

A dense neutrino medium could experience self-induced flavor conversions on relatively small scales in the presence of the so-called fast flavor conversion modes. Owing to the fact that fast conversion scales could be much smaller than the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 Sajad Abbar , Maria Cristina Volpe

It has been recently shown that the flavor composition of a self-interacting neutrino gas can spontaneously acquire a time-dependent pulsating component during its flavor evolution. In this work, we perform a more detailed study of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-26 Francesco Capozzi , Basudeb Dasgupta , Alessandro Mirizzi

Neutrino-neutrino refraction causes self-induced flavor conversion in dense neutrino fluxes. For the first time, we include the azimuth angle of neutrino propagation as an explicit variable and find a new generic multi-azimuth-angle (MAA)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Georg Raffelt , Srdjan Sarikas , David de Sousa Seixas

The usual description of self-induced flavor conversions for neutrinos (\nu's) in supernovae is based on the simplified assumption that all the \nu's of the different species are emitted "half-isotropically" by a common neutrinosphere, in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Alessandro Mirizzi , Pasquale D. Serpico

We discuss the relationship between a symmetry in the neutrino flavour evolution equations and neutrino flavour oscillations in the collective precession mode. This collective precession mode can give rise to spectral swaps (splits) when…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-25 Huaiyu Duan , George M. Fuller , Yong-Zhong Qian

We calculate coherent neutrino and antineutrino flavor transformation in the supernova environment, for the first time including a self-consistent treatment of forward scattering-induced coupling and entanglement of intersecting…

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

In an interacting neutrino gas, collective modes of flavor coherence emerge that can be propagating or unstable. We derive the general dispersion relation in the linear regime that depends on the neutrino energy and angle distribution. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-19 Sagar Airen , Francesco Capozzi , Sovan Chakraborty , Basudeb Dasgupta , Georg Raffelt , Tobias Stirner

We consider a simplifed model for self-induced flavor conversions of a dense neutrino gas in two dimensions, showing new solutions that spontaneously break the spatial symmetries of the initial conditions. As a result of the symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-29 Alessandro Mirizzi , Gianpiero Mangano , Ninetta Saviano

We explore the effects of collective neutrino flavor oscillations due to neutrino-neutrino interactions on the neutrino heating behind a stalled core-collapse supernova shock. We carry out axisymmetric (2D) radiation-hydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-06 Basudeb Dasgupta , Evan P. O'Connor , Christian D. Ott

Determining where, when, and how neutrino flavor oscillations must be included in large-scale simulations of hot and dense astrophysical environments is an enduring challenge that must be tackled to obtain accurate predictions. Using an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Julien Froustey , Francois Foucart , Christian Hall , James P. Kneller , Debraj Kundu , Zidu Lin , Gail C. McLaughlin , Sherwood Richers

Dense clouds of neutrinos and antineutrinos can exhibit fast collective flavor oscillations. Previously, in Phys. Rev. Lett. 126 (2021) 061302, we proposed that such flavor oscillations lead to depolarization, i.e., an irreversible mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-29 Soumya Bhattacharyya , Basudeb Dasgupta