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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

Neutrinos drive core-collapse supernovae, launch outflows from neutron star merger accretion disks, and set the ratio of protons to neutrons in ejecta from both systems that generate heavy elements in the universe. Neutrinos of different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-05 Sherwood Richers , Don E. Willcox , Nicole M. Ford , Andrew Myers

We present the first simulations of core-collapse supernovae in axial symmetry with feedback from fast neutrino flavor conversion (FFC). Our schematic treatment of FFCs assumes instantaneous flavor equilibration under the constraint of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-03 Jakob Ehring , Sajad Abbar , Hans-Thomas Janka , Georg Raffelt , Irene Tamborra

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

Fast flavor conversions (FFCs) of neutrinos, which can occur in core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe), are multiangle effects. They depend on the angular distribution of the neutrino's electron lepton number (ELN). In this work, we present a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-22 Zewei Xiong , Meng-Ru Wu , Manu George , Chun-Yu Lin , Noshad Khosravi Largani , Tobias Fischer , Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo

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

In astrophysical environments such as core-collapse supernovae and neutron star-neutron star or neutron star-black hole mergers where dense neutrino media are present, matter-neutrino resonances (MNRs) can occur when the neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-24 Meng-Ru Wu , Huaiyu Duan , Yong-Zhong Qian

The supernova neutrino flavor evolution in the presence of the non-trivial neutrino magnetic moment and strong magnetic field is numerically derived using the two-flavor and single-angle approximation. The novel properties of collective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-18 Ziyi Yuan , Yu-Feng Li , Xiang Zhou

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

The core-collapse of massive stars and merger of neutron star binaries are among the most promising candidate sites for the production of high-energy cosmic neutrinos. We demonstrate that the high-energy neutrinos produced in such extreme…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-06 Sajad Abbar , Jose Alonso Carpio , Kohta Murase

We analytically determine neutrino transitional probabilities and abundance ratios at various distances from the source of creation in several astrophysical contexts, including the Sun, supernovae and cosmic rays. In doing so, we determine…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-11 John Harrison , Richard Anantua

The depth of our theoretical understanding of neutrino flavor mixing should match the importance of this phenomenon as a herald of long-awaited empirical challenges to the standard model of particle physics. After reviewing the familiar,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Y. Cardall

We present results of large-scale numerical simulations of the evolution of neutrino and antineutrino flavors in the region above the late-time post-supernova-explosion proto-neutron star. Our calculations are the first to allow explicit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Huaiyu Duan , George M. Fuller , J Carlson , Yong-Zhong Qian

We investigate toy models for spatial and temporal instabilities in collective neutrino oscillations induced by neutrino self-interactions, with special emphasis on inhomogeneous systems with densities following a profile. Simulations are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-23 Guenter Sigl

A short review on studies of neutrino flavor oscillations in moving with a constant speed matter is presented. Then neutrino flavor oscillations in matter moving with acceleration are considered. We develop an approach that is valid for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-05 Alexander I. Studenikin , Ilya V. Tokarev

Neutrinos are densely populated deep inside the core of massive stars after their gravitational collapse to produce supernova explosions and form compact stars such as neutron stars (NS) and black holes (BH). It has been considered that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-29 Milad Delfan Azari , Shoichi Yamada , Taiki Morinaga , Wakana Iwakami , Hirotada Okawa , Hiroki Nagakura , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi

We derive an analytical solution for the flavor evolution of a neutrino through a turbulent density profile which is found to accurately predict the amplitude and transition wavelength of numerical solutions on a case-by-case basis. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-07 Kelly M. Patton , James P. Kneller , Gail C. McLaughlin

We examine the commonly explored beyond-standard-model physics scenario of secret neutrino forces, and point out a model prediction that appears to have been overlooked: the generation of unique flavor-changing effects in experiments…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-18 B. J. P. Jones , J. Spitz

Neutrinos can undergo fast flavor conversions (FFCs) within extremely dense astrophysical environments such as core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and neutron star mergers (NSMs). In this study, we explore FFCs in a \emph{multi-energy}…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-01 Sajad Abbar , Meng-Ru Wu , Zewei Xiong

The complete description of neutrino oscillations require the wave packet treatment. For terrestrial experiments the contribution from the interaction of neutrino with the Earth matter would modify oscillation pattern, i.e., the dependence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-06 Nan Qin , Bo-Qiang Ma