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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

In dense neutrino backgrounds present in supernovae and in the early Universe, neutrino oscillations may exhibit complex collective phenomena, such as synchronized oscillations, bipolar oscillations and spectral splits and swaps. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-02 Evgeny Akhmedov , Joachim Kopp , Manfred Lindner

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

We investigate the collision-induced flavor instability in homogeneous, isotropic, dense neutrino gases in the two-flavor mixing scenario with energy-dependent scattering. We uncover a simple expression of the growth rate of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-27 Yu-Chia Lin , Huaiyu Duan

In dense neutrino gases, the neutrino-neutrino coherent forward scattering gives rise to a complex flavor oscillation phenomenon not fully incorporated in simulations of neutron star mergers (NSM) and core collapse supernovae (CCSNe).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-06 Erick Urquilla , Sherwood Richers

In neutrino-dense astrophysical environments, these particles exchange flavor through a coherent weak field, forming a collisionless neutrino plasma with collective flavor dynamics. Instabilities, which grow and affect the environment, may…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-31 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Georg G. Raffelt

Fast pairwise conversions of neutrinos may affect the flavor distribution in the core of neutrino-dense sources. We explore the interplay between collisions and fast conversions within a simplified framework that assumes angle-independent,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-10 Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

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

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

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

Neutrino-neutrino interactions in dense neutrino streams, like those emitted by a core-collapse supernova, can lead to self-induced neutrino flavor conversions. While this is a nonlinear phenomenon, the onset of these conversions can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-02 Arka Banerjee , Amol Dighe , Georg Raffelt

A dense neutrino gas exhibiting angular crossings in the electron lepton number is unstable and develops fast flavor conversions. Instead of assuming an unstable configuration from the onset, we imagine that the system is externally driven…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-11 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Georg Raffelt

In the dense-neutrino region at 50-400 km above the neutrino sphere in a supernova, neutrino-neutrino interactions cause large flavor transformations. We study when the multi-angle nature of the neutrino trajectories leads to flavor…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andreu Esteban-Pretel , Sergio Pastor , Ricard Tomas , Georg G. Raffelt , Gunter Sigl

To account for neutrino oscillations, it was postulated that the neutrino has nonvanishing mass and each flavor eigenstate is formed by a quantum superposition of three distinct mass eigenstates, whose probability amplitudes interfere with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-18 Shi-Biao Zheng

Neutrinos in dense environments undergo collective pair conversions $\nu_e\bar{\nu}_e \leftrightarrow \nu_x\bar{\nu}_x$, where $x$ is a non-electron flavor, due to forward scattering off each other that may be a crucial ingredient for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-02 Basudeb Dasgupta , Manibrata Sen

In dense neutrino environments, such as provided by core-collapse supernovae or neutron-star mergers, neutrino angular distributions may be unstable to collective flavor conversions, whose outcome remains to be fully understood. These…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-08 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Georg G. Raffelt

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

We all know that in the dense anisotropic interior of the star, neutrino-neutrino forward-scattering can lead to fast collective neutrino oscillations, which has striking consequences on flavor dependent neutrino emission and can be crucial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-06 Soumya Bhattacharyya

In the early Universe, as well as in supernovae and merging neutron stars, neutrinos have such high densities that they affect each other and exhibit collective flavor oscillations. A crucial ingredient for fast collective flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-06 Soumya Bhattacharyya , Basudeb Dasgupta

Neutrinos propagating in dense neutrino media such as core-collapse supernovae and neutron star merger remnants can experience the so-called fast flavor conversions on scales much shorter than those expected in vacuum. A very generic class…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-31 Sajad Abbar , Francesco Capozzi