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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

Mounting evidence indicates that neutrinos likely undergo fast flavor conversion (FFC) in at least some core-collapse supernovae. Outcomes of FFC, however, remain highly uncertain. Here we study the cascade of flavor-field power from large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-25 Lucas Johns , Hiroki Nagakura , George M. Fuller , Adam Burrows

Neutrinos produced in the atmosphere traverse a column density of air before being detected at neutrino observatories like IceCube or KM3NeT. In this work, we extend the neutrino flavor evolution in the {nuSQuIDS} code accounting for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-21 Connor Sponsler , Matheus Hostert , Ivan Martinez-Soler , Carlos A. Argüelles

The flavor evolution of neutrinos in environments with large neutrino number densities is an open problem at the nexus of astrophysics and neutrino flavor physics. Among the many unanswered questions pertaining to this problem, it remains…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-12-21 Denis Lacroix , A. B. Balantekin , Michael J. Cervia , Amol V. Patwardhan , Pooja Siwach

When the neutrino density is very high, as in core-collapse supernovae, neutrino-neutrino interactions are not negligible and can appreciably affect the evolution of flavour. The physics of these phenomena is briefly highlighted, and their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-18 Irene Tamborra

We revisit the decoupling of neutrinos in the early universe with flavour oscillations. We rederive the quantum kinetic equations which determine the neutrino evolution based on a BBGKY-like hierarchy, and include for the first time the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-08 Julien Froustey , Cyril Pitrou , Maria Cristina Volpe

Reactor neutrino experiments have now observed a nonzero value for $\theta_{13}$ at $5\sigma$, and global fits to data imply a nonzero value above $10\sigma$. Nonzero values for $\theta_{13}$ and/or $\theta_{32}-\pi/4$ break a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-27 Lingjun Fu , Chiu Man Ho , Thomas J. Weiler

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

We study decoherence effects in neutrino flavour oscillations in curved spacetime with particular emphasis on the lensing in a Schwarzschild geometry. Assuming Gaussian wave packets for neutrinos, we argue that the decoherence length…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-12 Himanshu Swami , Kinjalk Lochan , Ketan M. Patel

Neutrino-neutrino refraction causes self-induced flavor conversion in dense neutrino fluxes. For the first time, we include the azimuth angle of neutrino propagation as an explicit variable and find a new generic multi-azimuth-angle (MAA)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Georg Raffelt , Srdjan Sarikas , David de Sousa Seixas

Neutrinos are known to undergo flavor conversion processes among the three flavors. The fast flavor conversion (FFC) has been the central piece of flavor conversions taking place in core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) due to its shorter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-15 Jiabao Liu , Hiroki Nagakura , Ryuichiro Akaho , Akira Ito , Masamichi Zaizen , Shoichi Yamada

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

In this paper, we propose a hexagonal description for the flavor composition of ultrahigh-energy (UHE) neutrinos and antineutrinos, which will hopefully be determined at the future large neutrino telescopes. With such a geometrical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-12 Shun Zhou

In the standard model of core-collapse supernova (CCSN), all neutrinos are assumed to be in pure flavor eigenstates in CCSN cores, but the assumption becomes invalid if neutrino distributions are unstable to flavor conversions. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-31 Masamichi Zaizen , Sherwood Richers , Hiroki Nagakura , Hideyuki Suzuki , Chinami Kato

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

We examine coherent active-active channel neutrino flavor evolution in environments where neutrino-neutrino forward scattering can engender large-scale collective flavor transformation. We point out a key quantity, the "total effective…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Huaiyu Duan , George M. Fuller , Yong-Zhong Qian

We present a model of neutrino mixing based on the flavour group $\Delta(27)$ in order to account for the observation of a non-zero reactor mixing angle ($\theta_{13}$). The model provides a common flavour structure for the charged-lepton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-10 P. F. Harrison , R. Krishnan , W. G. Scott

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

Oscillations of neutrino emerging from a supernova core are studied. In this extremely high density region neutrino self interactions induce collective flavor transitions. When collective transitions are decoupled from matter oscillations,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-05-19 Gianluigi Fogli , Eligio Lisi , Antonio Marrone , Alessandro Mirizzi

We calculate rates of flavor exchange within clouds of neutrinos interacting with each other through the standard model coupling, assuming a conventional mass matrix. For cases in which there is an angular dependence in the relation among…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-29 R. F. Sawyer