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We investigate key methodologies of Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook subgrid modeling for neutrino fast flavor conversions (FFC) in core-collapse supernova based on spherically symmetric Boltzmann radiation hydrodynamics simulations. We first examine…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-25 Ryuichiro Akaho , Hiroki Nagakura , 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

Neutrino-neutrino forward scatterings potentially induce collective neutrino oscillation in dense neutrino gases in astrophysical sites such as core-collapse supernovae (CCSN) and binary neutron star mergers (BNSM). In this paper, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Masamichi Zaizen , Hiroki Nagakura

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

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

We investigate the neutrino flavor change effects due to neutrino self-interaction, shock wave propagation as well as matter effect on the neutrino-process of the core-collapsing supernova (CCSN). For the hydrodynamics, we use two models: a…

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 from a supernova (SN) might undergo fast flavor conversions near the collapsed stellar core. We perform a detailed study of this intriguing possibility, analyzing time-dependent state-of-the-art 3D SN models of 9 and 20 Msun. Both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-11 Robert Glas , H. -Thomas Janka , Francesco Capozzi , Manibrata Sen , Basudeb Dasgupta , Alessandro Mirizzi , Guenter Sigl

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

We investigate the dynamics of fast neutrino flavor conversions (FFCs) in the one-dimensional (1D) and zero-dimensional (0D) models, in which spatial advection is considered and ignored, respectively. In this study, we employ snapshots…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-19 Milad Delfan Azari , Hirokazu Sasaki , Tomoya Takiwaki , Hirotada Okawa

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

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

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

Neutrino self-interactions in a dense neutrino gas can induce collective neutrino flavor conversions. Fast neutrino flavor conversions (FFCs), one of the collective neutrino conversion modes, potentially change the dynamics and observables…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-28 Chinami Kato , Hiroki Nagakura

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

The dense neutrino medium in a core-collapse supernova or a neutron-star merger event can experience fast flavor conversions on time/distance scales that are much smaller than those of vacuum oscillations. It is believed that fast neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-14 Sajad Abbar , Huaiyu Duan , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Tomoya Takiwaki , Maria Cristina Volpe

At the present time even the most sophisticated, multi-dimensional simulations of core-collapse supernovae do not (self-consistently) include neutrino flavor transformation. This physics is missing despite the importance of neutrinos in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-14 Charles J. Stapleford , Carla Fröhlich , James P. Kneller

Recent multi-dimensional (multi-D) core-collapse supernova (CCSN) simulations characterize gravitational waves (GWs) and neutrino signals, offering insight into universal properties of CCSN independent of progenitor. Neutrino analysis in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-04 Hiroki Nagakura , David Vartanyan

Flavor conversion can affect the neutrino-driven delayed explosion mechanism of collapsing massive stars, altering the efficiency of shock revival. We perform core-collapse supernova simulations in spherical symmetry for a set of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 Mariam Gogilashvili , Irene Tamborra

The neutrino fast flavor instability (FFI) can change neutrino flavor on time scales of nanoseconds and length scales of centimeters. It is expected to be ubiquitous in core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers, potentially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-27 Sherwood Richers , Manibrata Sen