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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

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

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 assess the occurrence of fast neutrino flavor instabilities in two three-dimensional state-of-the-art core-collapse supernova simulations performed using a two-moment three-species neutrino transport scheme: one with an exploding…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Sajad Abbar , Francesco Capozzi , Robert Glas , H. -Thomas Janka , Irene Tamborra

Neutron star mergers are multimessenger sources whose dynamics and signals depend critically on neutrinos and their flavor transformations. We investigate whether fast and collisional neutrino flavor instabilities (FFIs and CFIs) arise in a…

Self induced neutrino flavor conversions in the dense regions of stellar core collapse are almost exclusively studied in the standard two flavor scenario. Linear stability analysis has been successfully used to understand these flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-09 Madhurima Chakraborty , Sovan Chakraborty

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

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

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

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

Merging our supernova code F{\sc{ornax}} with the Box3D fast-flavor neutrino oscillation formalism, we explore the effects of fast-flavor conversion (FFC) in state-of-the-art 1D and 2D core-collapse supernova simulations. We find that after…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-14 Tianshu Wang , Adam Burrows

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 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

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

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

Fast and collisional flavor instabilities possibly occur in the neutrino decoupling regions of core-collapse supernovae and neutron-star mergers. To gain a better understanding of the relevant flavor dynamics, we numerically solve for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-28 Lucas Johns , Zewei Xiong

Neutrinos are known to undergo flavor conversion among their three flavors. In the theoretical modeling of core-collapse supernova (CCSN), there has been a great deal of attention to recent discoveries of a new type of neutrino flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-14 Jiabao Liu , Hiroki Nagakura , Ryuichiro Akaho , Akira Ito , Masamichi Zaizen , Shun Furusawa , Shoichi Yamada

In this work, we explore in a consistent fashion the effects of fast flavor conversion (FFC) in 1D and 2D core-collapse supernova (CCSN) simulations. In addition, we investigate the impact of various angular reconstruction methods and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-27 Tianshu Wang , Adam Burrows

Investigations of dense neutrino cloud evolution through quantum kinetic equations led to the possibility of ``fast flavor" (FF) processes. It is shown here that the usual quantum kinetic equations, while signaling the instabilities that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-21 R. F. Sawyer

Supernova neutrinos can exhibit a rich variety of flavor conversion mechanisms. In particular, they can experience "fast" self-induced flavor conversions almost immediately above the core. Very recently, a novel method has been proposed to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-13 Francesco Capozzi , Basudeb Dasgupta , Eligio Lisi , Antonio Marrone , Alessandro Mirizzi