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Accurate neutrino transport is crucial for reliably modeling explosive astrophysical events like core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and neutron star mergers (NSMs). However, in these extremely neutrino-dense systems, flavor oscillations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-29 Lucas Johns , Sherwood Richers , Meng-Ru Wu

It has been recently pointed out that neutrino fluxes from a supernova can show substantial flavor conversions almost immediately above the core. Using linear stability analyses and numerical solutions of the fully nonlinear equations of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-16 Basudeb Dasgupta , Alessandro Mirizzi , Manibrata Sen

The relative rate of neutron stars and black holes produced by the collapse of massive stars is highly uncertain. We simulate the stellar collapse of $195$ progenitors with masses between $9\, M_\odot$ and $120\, M_\odot$, incorporating a…

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

The quantum kinetic evolution of neutrinos in dense environments, such as the core-collapse supernovae or the neutron star mergers, can result in fast flavor conversion (FFC), presenting a significant challenge to achieving robust…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-10 Zewei Xiong , Meng-Ru Wu , Manu George , Chun-Yu Lin

We explore the effects of the neutrino collisional flavor instability (CFI) based on 1D and 2D core-collapse supernova (CCSN) simulations done using the sophisticated radiation-hydrodynamic code Fornax. We compare the growth rates of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-18 Tianshu Wang , Hiroki Nagakura , Lucas Johns , Adam Burrows

We investigated the impact of a spatially varying matter potential $\lambda$, coming from neutrino-electron forward scattering, on the emergence of fast neutrino flavor conversion (FFC) triggered by the presence of zero crossings in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-16 Soumya Bhattacharyya , Meng-Ru Wu , Zewei Xiong

We perform one-zone simulations of the infall epoch of a pre-supernova stellar core in the presence of neutrino flavor changing scattering interactions. Our calculations give a self-consistent assessment of the relationship between flavor…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Philip S. Amanik , George M. Fuller

In dense astrophysical environments, notably core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers, neutrino-neutrino forward scattering can spawn flavor conversion on very short scales. Scattering with the background medium can impact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-31 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Ian Padilla-Gay , Georg G. Raffelt

In environments with high dense neutrino gases, such as in core-collapse supernovae, the neutrinos can experience collective neutrino oscillation due to their self-interactions. In particular, fast flavor conversion driven by the crossings…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-01 Masamichi Zaizen , Taiki Morinaga

Neutrinos are densely populated deep inside the core of massive stars after their gravitational collapse to produce supernova explosions and form compact stars such as neutron stars (NS) and black holes (BH). It has been considered that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-29 Milad Delfan Azari , Shoichi Yamada , Taiki Morinaga , Wakana Iwakami , Hirotada Okawa , Hiroki Nagakura , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi

Neutrinos in a core-collapse supernova can undergo fast flavor conversions with a possible impact on the explosion mechanism and nucleosynthesis. We perform the first non-linear simulations of fast conversions in the presence of three…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-04 Francesco Capozzi , Madhurima Chakraborty , Sovan Chakraborty , Manibrata Sen

We present a comprehensive study on the occurrences of the collisional flavor instability (CFI) and the fast flavor instability (FFI) of neutrinos based on a two-dimensional (2D) core-collapse supernova (CCSN) simulation performed with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-10 Ryuichiro Akaho , Jiabao Liu , Hiroki Nagakura , Masamichi Zaizen , Shoichi Yamada

A core-collapse supernova (SN) releases almost all of its energy in the form of neutrinos, which provide a unique opportunity to probe the working machinery of a SN. These sites are prone to neutrino-neutrino refractive effects, which can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-03 Manibrata Sen

The flavor evolution of neutrinos in dense astrophysical sources, such as core-collapse supernovae or compact binary mergers, is non-linear due to the coherent forward scattering of neutrinos among themselves. Recent work in this context…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-23 Marie Cornelius , Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

We explore the effects of collective neutrino flavor oscillations due to neutrino-neutrino interactions on the neutrino heating behind a stalled core-collapse supernova shock. We carry out axisymmetric (2D) radiation-hydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-06 Basudeb Dasgupta , Evan P. O'Connor , Christian D. Ott

Neutrino flavor instabilities have the potential to shuffle neutrinos between electron, mu, and tau flavor states, modifying the core-collapse supernova mechanism and the heavy elements ejected from neutron star mergers. Analytic methods…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-01 Sherwood Richers , Donald Willcox , Nicole ford

The large neutrino density in the deep interior of core-collapse supernovae and compact binary merger remnants makes neutrino flavor evolution non-linear because of the coherent forward scattering of neutrinos among themselves. Under the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-16 Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

Numerical simulations of the supernova (SN) neutrino self-induced flavor conversions, associated with the neutrino-neutrino interactions in the deepest stellar regions, have been typically carried out assuming the "bulb-model". In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Alessandro Mirizzi , Pasquale Dario Serpico

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

Neutrino flux streaming from a supernova can undergo rapid flavor conversions almost immediately above the core. Focusing on this region, we study these fast conversions using a linear stability analysis. We find that, for realistic angular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-23 Manibrata Sen