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Neutrino evolution, of great importance in environments such as neutron star mergers (NSMs) because of their impact on explosive nucleosynthesis, is still poorly understood due to the high complexity and variety of possible flavor…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-15 Julien Froustey , Sherwood Richers , Evan Grohs , Samuel D. Flynn , Francois Foucart , James P. Kneller , Gail C. McLaughlin

We present an approximate energy-integration method for identifying collisional neutrino flavor instabilities. Direct evaluation of the dispersion relation requires multi-dimensional integrals over neutrino phase space, making systematic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-02 Jiabao Liu , 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

A nascent neutron star resulting from stellar collapse is a prodigious source of neutrinos of all flavors. While the most basic features of this neutrino emission can be estimated from simple considerations, the detailed simulation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Christian Y. Cardall

The neutrino fast flavor instability dominates the evolution of neutrino flavor within the engines of core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. However, theoretical models of neutrino flavor change that include many-body quantum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-22 Zoha Laraib , Sherwood Richers

Neutrino mixing is caused by the fact that neutrino flavors are not eigenstates of the free Hamiltonian. This causes oscillations among different neutrino flavors. When neutrinos pass through a medium, weak interactions produce different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-18 Riya Barick , Indrajit Ghose , Amitabha Lahiri

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

A variety of neutrino flavour conversion phenomena occur in core-collapse supernova, due to the large neutrino density close to the neutrinosphere, and the importance of the neutrino-neutrino interaction. Three different regimes have been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Sebastien Galais , Cristina Volpe

In a core collapse supernova, collective oscillations of neutrinos emitted by the proto-neutron star significantly modifies the partition of energy between different flavors in a way which is potentially important for the nucleosynthesis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-29 T. Bulmus , Y. Pehlivan

Understanding the post-merger evolution of binary neutron star merger (BNSM) requires accurate modeling of neutrino transport and microphysics including neutrino flavor conversions. Many previous studies have suggested that fast flavor…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-28 Hiroki Nagakura , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Sho Fujibayashi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

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 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 study two-flavor collective neutrino oscillations in the dense-neutrino region above the neutrino sphere in a supernova (SN). The angular dependence of the neutrino-neutrino interaction potential causes "multi-angle" effects that can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Andreu Esteban-Pretel , Sergio Pastor , Ricard Tomas , Georg Raffelt , Gunter Sigl

We calculate coherent neutrino and antineutrino flavor transformation in the supernova environment, for the first time including a self-consistent treatment of forward scattering-induced coupling and entanglement of intersecting…

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

Collective flavor oscillations driven by neutrino-neutrino self interaction inside core-collapse supernovae have now been shown to bring drastic changes in the resultant neutrino fluxes. This would in turn significantly affect the diffuse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-29 Sovan Chakraborty , Sandhya Choubey , Basudeb Dasgupta , Kamales Kar

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

Collective oscillations of supernova neutrinos swap the electron neutrino and antineutrino spectra with those of another flavor in certain energy intervals bounded by sharp spectral splits. This phenomenon is far more general than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-02 Basudeb Dasgupta , Amol Dighe , Georg G. Raffelt , Alexei Yu. Smirnov

We study the modification of the detected flavor content of ultra high-energy astrophysical neutrinos in the presence of non-standard interactions of neutrinos with the Earth matter. Unlike the case of new physics affecting the propagation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-28 M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , Michele Maltoni , Ivan Martinez-Soler , Ningqiang Song

Self-induced flavor conversions near the supernova (SN) core can make the fluxes for different neutrino species become almost equal, potentially altering the dynamics of the SN explosion and washing out all further neutrino oscillation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-26 Francesco Capozzi , Basudeb Dasgupta , Alessandro Mirizzi

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