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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…

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The Matter-Neutrino Resonance (MNR) phenomenon has the potential to significantly alter the flavor content of neutrinos emitted from compact object mergers. We present the first calculations of MNR transitions using neutrino self…

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In the vicinity of neutron star mergers (NSMs), it is possible for the neutrino self-interaction potential to cancel with the matter potential leading to matter neutrino resonance (MNR). MNR is one of the most interesting mechanisms by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-23 Owais Ullah Faiz , Mushahid Hussain , Shashank Shalgar

Matter-neutrino resonances (MNR) can occur in environments where the flux of electron antineutrinos is greater than the flux of electron neutrinos. These resonances may result in dramatic neutrino flavor transformation. Compact object…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-24 A. Malkus , G. C. McLaughlin , R. Surman

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

Neutron star merger remnants are unique sites for exploring neutrino flavor conversion in dense media. Because of the natural excess of $\bar{\nu}_e$ over $\nu_e$, the neutrino-neutrino potential can cancel the matter potential, giving rise…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-06 Ian Padilla-Gay , Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

We examine the flavor evolution of neutrinos emitted from the disk-like remnant (hereafter called \lq\lq neutrino disk\rq\rq) of a binary neutron star (BNS) merger. We specifically follow the neutrinos emitted from the center of the disk,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-08 James Y. Tian , Amol V. Patwardhan , George M. Fuller

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

We examine neutrino evolution in astrophysical environments where the neutrino flux is very large, including core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. In these environments, the neutrino-neutrino and neutrino-antineutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-13 Joseph Carlson , Alessandro Roggero , Duff Neill

We report results of the first 3-by-3 "multi-angle" simulation of the evolution of neutrino flavor in the core collapse supernova environment. In particular, we follow neutrino flavor transformation in the neutronization neutrino burst of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-11 John F. Cherry , George M. Fuller , Joe Carlson , Huaiyu Duan , Yong-Zong Qian

We study the neutrino flavor evolution in the neutrino-driven wind from a binary neutron star merger remnant consisting of a massive neutron star surrounded by an accretion disk. With the neutrino emission characteristics and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-01 Maik Frensel , Meng-Ru Wu , Cristina Volpe , Albino Perego

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

Our understanding of neutrino flavor conversion in the innermost regions of core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers is mostly limited to spherically symmetric configurations that facilitate the numerical solution of the quantum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-28 Marie Cornelius , Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

Neutrino masses and mixings produce vacuum oscillations, an established quantum mechanical phenomenon. In matter, the Mikheev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect, due to neutrino interactions with the background particles, triggers resonant flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-11 M. Cristina Volpe

The flavor evolution of neutrinos in core collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers is a critically important unsolved problem in astrophysics. Following the electron flavor evolution of the neutrino system is essential for calculating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-29 Evan Grohs , Sherwood Richers , Sean M. Couch , Francois Foucart , James P. Kneller , G. C. McLaughlin

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

We present numerical relativity simulations of binary neutron star mergers incorporating neutrino flavor transformations triggered by fast flavor instability, quantum many-body effects, or potential beyond standard model physics. In both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-14 Yi Qiu , David Radice , Sherwood Richers , Federico Maria Guercilena , Albino Perego , Maitraya Bhattacharyya

We present neutrino bulb model simulations of Majorana neutrino coherent spin transformation (i.e., neutrino-antineutrino transformation), coupled to neutrino flavor evolution, for conditions corresponding to the neutronization burst epoch…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 James Y. Tian , Amol V. Patwardhan , George M. Fuller

As is widely known, the flavour and mass eigenbasis in neutrino sector can be related by a reduced unitary matrix, described by 3 real parameters and one phase, for Dirac neutrinos, and 2 extra phases if neutrinos are Majorana particles.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-21 Pedro Cunha de Holanda , Macello Jales de Carvalho Fonseca Filho , Eduardo Walter da Silva

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
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