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We explore the impact of small-scale flavor conversions of neutrinos, the so-called fast flavor conversions (FFCs), on the dynamical evolution and neutrino emission of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe). In order to do that, we implement FFCs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 Jakob Ehring , Sajad Abbar , Hans-Thomas Janka , Georg Raffelt , Irene Tamborra

We point out that solar neutrino oscillations with large mixing angle as evidenced in current solar neutrino data have a strong impact on strategies for diagnosing collapse-driven supernova (SN) through neutrino observations. Such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 H. Minakata , H. Nunokawa , R. Tomas , J. W. F. Valle

One of the unresolved mysteries in neutrino physics is the neutrino mass hierarchy. We present a new method to determine neutrino mass hierarchy by comparing the events of inverse beta decays (IBD), $\bar{\nu}_e + p\rightarrow n + e^+$, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-20 Fei-Fan Lee , Feng-Shiuh Lee , Kwang-Chang Lai

Nonstandard interactions (NSI) of neutrinos with matter can significantly alter neutrino flavor evolution in supernovae with the potential to impact explosion dynamics, nucleosynthesis, and the neutrinos signal. In this paper, we explore,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-07 Charles J. Stapleford , Daavid J. Väänänen , James P. Kneller , Gail C. McLaughlin , Brandon T. Shapiro

The sensitivity of current and future neutrino detectors like Super-Kamiokande (SK), JUNO, Hyper-Kamiokande (HK), and DUNE is expected to allow for the detection of the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB). However, the DSNB model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-15 Nick Ekanger , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Hiroki Nagakura , Samantha Reitz

We study the ratio of neutrino-proton elastic scattering to inverse beta decay event counts, measurable in a scintillation detector like JUNO, as a key observable for identifying the explosion mechanism of a galactic core-collapse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Nitsan Bar , Kfir Blum , Guido D'Amico

Neutrinos in a core-collapse supernova undergo coherent flavor transformations in their own background. We explore this phenomenon during the cooling stage of the explosion. Our three-flavor calculations reveal qualitatively new effects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-25 Alexander Friedland

A modified version of the MSW effect is studied within the framework of screening models through conformal couplings of a scalar field within matter. Such a coupling leads to a new, unknown interaction between the scalar field and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-21 H. Yazdani Ahmadabadi , H. Mohseni Sadjadi

We reexamine the possibility of reconstructing the initial fluxes of supernova neutrinos emitted in a future core-collapse galactic supernova explosion and detected in a Megaton-sized water Cherenkov detector. A novel key element in our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 H. Minakata , H. Nunokawa , R. Tomas , J. W. F. Valle

We suggest a would-be solution to the solar neutrino tension why solar neutrinos appear to mix differently from reactor antineutrinos, in theoretical respect. To do that, based on an extended theory with light sterile neutrinos added we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-31 Y. H. Ahn

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

We present a theory of neutrino oscillations in a dense medium which goes beyond the effective matter potential used in the description of the MSW effect. We show how the purity of the neutrino state is degraded by neutrino interactions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-20 Antonio Capolupo , Salvatore Marco Giampaolo , Aniello Quaranta

In very dense environments, neutrinos can undergo fast flavor conversions on scales as short as a few centimeters provided that the angular distribution of the neutrino lepton number crosses zero. This work presents the first attempt to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-05 Francesco Capozzi , Sajad Abbar , Robert Bollig , H. -Thomas Janka

Neutrinos propagating in dense neutrino media such as those in core-collapse supernovae can experience fast flavor conversions on scales much shorter than those expected in vacuum. It is believed that a necessary condition for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-22 Sajad Abbar

We assert that non-linear features of fast neutrino-flavor conversion (FFC) can be qualitatively different between core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and binary neutron star mergers (BNSMs). This argument arises from recent global FFC…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-22 Masamichi Zaizen , Hiroki Nagakura

Collective pair conversion $\nu_e\bar\nu_e\leftrightarrow \nu_{x}\bar\nu_{x}$ by forward scattering, where $x=\mu$ or $\tau$, may be generic for supernova neutrino transport. Depending on the local angular intensity of the electron lepton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-12 Ignacio Izaguirre , Georg Raffelt , Irene Tamborra

Neutrino-neutrino refraction dominates the flavor evolution in core-collapse supernovae, neutron-star mergers, and the early universe. Ordinary neutrino flavor conversion develops on timescales determined by the vacuum oscillation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-28 Irene Tamborra , Shashank Shalgar

The flavor composition of ultra-high energy cosmic neutrinos (UHECN) carries precious information about the physical properties of their sources, the nature of neutrino oscillations and possible exotic physics involved during the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-03 Shi-Hao Wang , Pisin Chen , Jiwoo Nam , Melin Huang

The formalism of flavor conversion of supernova neutrinos is generalized to include possible differences in the fluxes of the muon and tau neutrinos produced in the star. In this case the radiatively induced difference of the nu_mu and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Kh. Akhmedov , C. Lunardini , A. Yu. Smirnov

Supernovae (SNe) are among the most energetic events in the universe still far from being fully understood. An early and prompt detection of neutrinos is a one-time opportunity for the realization of the first multi-messenger observation of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-24 Philipp Eller , Nahuel Ferreiro Iachellini , Luca Pattavina , Lolian Shtembari