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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 present a systematic study of fast neutrino-flavor conversion (FFC) with both small-scale and large-scale numerical simulations in spherical symmetry. We find that FFCs can, in general, reach a quasi-steady state, and these features in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-12 Hiroki Nagakura , Masamichi Zaizen

The question of what ingredients characterize the quasi-steady state of fast neutrino-flavor conversion (FFC) is one of the long-standing riddles in neutrino oscillation. Addressing this issue is necessary for accurate modeling of neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 Masamichi Zaizen , Hiroki Nagakura

In astrophysical environments such as core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and binary neutron star mergers (BNSMs), neutrinos potentially experience substantial flavor mixing due to the refractive effects of neutrino self-interactions.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-25 Jiabao Liu , Hiroki Nagakura , Masamichi Zaizen , Lucas Johns , Ryuichiro Akaho , Shoichi Yamada

The fast flavor conversions (FFCs) of neutrinos generally exist in core-collapse supernovae and binary neutron-star merger remnants, and can significantly change the flavor composition and affect the dynamics and nucleosynthesis processes.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-05 Zewei Xiong , Meng-Ru Wu , Sajad Abbar , Soumya Bhattacharyya , Manu George , Chun-Yu Lin

Despite the theoretical indication that fast neutrino-flavor conversion (FFC) ubiquitously occurs in core-collapse supernova and binary neutron star merger, the lack of global simulations has been the greatest obstacle to study their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-28 Hiroki Nagakura , Masamichi Zaizen

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

We investigate in this work the evolution of the collective fast neutrino flavor conversion (FFC) in a three dimensional (3D) cubic box with periodic boundary condition for three different neutrino angular distributions that are axially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-11 Manu George , Zewei Xiong , Meng-Ru Wu , Chun-Yu Lin

There is mounting evidence that neutrinos undergo fast flavor conversion (FFC) in core-collapse supernova (CCSN). In this letter, we investigate the roles of stellar rotation on the occurrence of FFC by carrying out axisymmetric CCSN…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-26 Akira Harada , Hiroki Nagakura

There has been growing evidence that mu and tau neutrinos are noticeably different due to the emergence of muons in core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and binary neutron star mergers (BNSMs). Recent theoretical studies also suggest that all…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-26 Jiabao Liu , Hiroki Nagakura , Masamichi Zaizen , Lucas Johns , Shoichi Yamada

We make a strong case that the fast neutrino-flavor conversion, one of the collective flavor oscillation modes, commonly occurs in core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe). It is confirmed in the numerical data obtained in realistic simulations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 Taiki Morinaga , Hiroki Nagakura , Chinami Kato , Shoichi Yamada

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

Fast neutrino-flavor conversion (FFC) can nontrivially alter neutrino radiation field in core-collapase supernovae (CCSN) and binary neutron-star merger (BNSM) remnants. However, its interplay with global geometry remains poorly understood…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-16 Masamichi Zaizen , Hiroki Nagakura

Neutrinos propagating in a dense neutrino gas, such as those expected in core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and neutron star mergers (NSMs), can experience fast flavor conversions on relatively short scales. This can happen if the neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-17 Sajad Abbar

Binary neutron star merger (BNSM) offers an environment where fast neutrino-flavor conversion (FFC) can vividly occur, that potentially leads to a considerable change of neutrino radiation field. In this Letter, we investigate global…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-19 Hiroki Nagakura

Fast-pairwise collective neutrino oscillation represents a key uncertainty in the theory of core-collapse supernova (CCSN). Despite the potentially significant impact on CCSN dynamics, it is usually neglected in numerical models of CCSN…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-03 Hiroki Nagakura , Lucas Johns , Adam Burrows , George M. Fuller

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

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

We present a linear stability analysis of the fast-pairwise neutrino flavor conversion based on a result of our latest axisymmetric core-collapse supernova (CCSN) simulation with full Boltzmann neutrino transport. In the CCSN simulation,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Hiroki Nagakura , Taiki Morinaga , Chinami Kato , Shoichi Yamada

Neutrinos can undergo fast flavor conversions (FFCs) within extremely dense astrophysical environments such as core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and neutron star mergers (NSMs). In this study, we explore FFCs in a \emph{multi-energy}…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-01 Sajad Abbar , Meng-Ru Wu , Zewei Xiong
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