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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 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 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

A new chapter is opening in the theory of core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers as simulations of these events begin to incorporate fast flavor conversion (FFC) and other forms of neutrino flavor mixing. Using numerical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-14 Erick Urquilla , Lucas Johns

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

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

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

In the most extreme astrophysical environments, such as core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and neutron star mergers (NSMs), neutrinos can undergo fast flavor conversions (FFCs) on exceedingly short scales. Intensive simulations have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-06 Sajad Abbar , Meng-Ru Wu , Zewei Xiong

We present the first simulations of core-collapse supernovae in axial symmetry with feedback from fast neutrino flavor conversion (FFC). Our schematic treatment of FFCs assumes instantaneous flavor equilibration under the constraint of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-03 Jakob Ehring , Sajad Abbar , Hans-Thomas Janka , Georg Raffelt , Irene Tamborra

One of the greatest uncertainties in any modeling of inner engine of core-collapse supernova (CCSN) is neutrino flavor conversions driven by neutrino self-interactions. We carry out large-scale numerical simulations of multi-energy,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-07 Hiroki Nagakura

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The successful transition from core-collapse supernova simulations using classical neutrino transport to simulations using quantum neutrino transport will require the development of methods for calculating neutrino flavor transformations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 McKenzie Myers , Theo Cooper , MacKenzie Warren , Jim Kneller , Gail McLaughlin , Sherwood Richers , Evan Grohs , Carla Frohlich

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
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