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The flavor evolution of neutrinos in core collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers is a critically important unsolved problem in astrophysics. Following the electron flavor evolution of the neutrino system is essential for calculating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-29 Evan Grohs , Sherwood Richers , Sean M. Couch , Francois Foucart , James P. Kneller , G. C. McLaughlin

We consider for the first time R-parity violating interactions of the Minimal Standard Supersymmetric Model involving neutrinos and quarks (``flavor changing neutral currents'', FCNC's) in the infall stage of stellar collapse. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-23 Philip S. Amanik , George M. Fuller , Benjamin Grinstein

Neutrino flavor evolution is critical for understanding the physics of dense astrophysical regimes, including core-collapse supernovae (CCSN). Powerful numerical integration codes exist for simulating these environments, yet a complete…

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

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

I review oscillation solutions to the neutrino anomalies and discuss how to account for the required pattern of neutrino masses and mixings from first principles. Unification and low-energy bottom-up approaches are discussed, the latter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose W. F. Valle

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 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

At high densities in compact astrophysical sources, the coherent forward scattering of neutrinos onto each other is responsible for making the flavor evolution non-linear. Under the assumption of spherical symmetry, we present the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

A dense gas of neutrinos and antineutrinos can undergo fast pairwise conversions near the decoupling regions of core-collapse supernovae and in compact binary neutron star mergers. The flavor dependent neutrino heating can play a role in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-03 Ian Padilla-Gay , Shashank Shalgar

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

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

The Froggatt-Nielsen (FN) mechanism offers an elegant explanation for the observed masses and mixings of Standard Model fermions. In this work, we systematically study FN models in the lepton sector, identifying a broad range of charge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-17 Claudia Cornella , David Curtin , Gordan Krnjaic , Micah Mellors

Fast neutrino flavor conversion can occur in core-collapse supernovae or compact binary merger remnants when non-forward collisions are also at play, and neutrinos are not fully decoupled from matter. This work aims to shed light on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-10 Rasmus S. L. Hansen , Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

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

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

Neutrinos in dense environments undergo collective pair conversions $\nu_e\bar{\nu}_e \leftrightarrow \nu_x\bar{\nu}_x$, where $x$ is a non-electron flavor, due to forward scattering off each other that may be a crucial ingredient for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-02 Basudeb Dasgupta , Manibrata Sen

In this work, we explore in a consistent fashion the effects of fast flavor conversion (FFC) in 1D and 2D core-collapse supernova (CCSN) simulations. In addition, we investigate the impact of various angular reconstruction methods and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-27 Tianshu Wang , Adam Burrows

Providing an accurate modeling of neutrino physics in dense astrophysical environments such as binary neutron star mergers presents a challenge for hydrodynamic simulations. Nevertheless, understanding how flavor transformation can occur…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-15 Julien Froustey , Sherwood Richers , Evan Grohs , Samuel Flynn , Francois Foucart , James P. Kneller , Gail C. McLaughlin

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