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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 fast pairwise conversions have been postulated to occur in the dense core of a core-collapse supernova (SN), possibly having dramatic consequences on the SN mechanism and the observable neutrino signal. One crucial condition…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-02 Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

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

Neutrinos experience collective flavor conversion in extreme astrophysical environments such as core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe). One manifestation of collective conversion is slow flavor conversion (SFC), which has recently attracted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-03 Ian Padilla-Gay , Heng-Hao Chen , Sajad Abbar , Meng-Ru Wu , Zewei Xiong

Collective neutrino flavor conversions in core-collapse supernovae (SNe) begin with instabilities, initially triggered when the dominant $\nu_e$ outflow concurs with a small antineutrino flux of opposite lepton number, with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-21 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Hans-Thomas Janka , Georg G. Raffelt

The undetermined neutrino mass hierarchy may leave an observable imprint on the neutrino fluxes from a core-collapse supernova (SN). The interpretation of the observables, however, is subject to the uncertain SN models and the flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 S. H. Chiu , Chu-Ching Huang , Kwang-Chang Lai

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

In core-collapse supernovae, neutrinos and antineutrinos are initially subject to significant self-interactions induced by weak neutral currents, which may induce strong-coupling effects on the flavor evolution (collective transitions). The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-09-19 G. L. Fogli , E. Lisi , A. Marrone , A. Mirizzi

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

According to recent studies, the collective flavor evolution of neutrinos in core-collapse supernovae depends strongly on the flavor-dependent angular distribution of the local neutrino radiation field, notably on the angular intensity of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-27 Irene Tamborra , Lorenz Huedepohl , Georg Raffelt , Hans-Thomas Janka

Electrons and electron neutrinos in the inner core of the core-collapse supernova are highly degenerate and therefore numerous during a few seconds of explosion. In contrast, leptons of other flavors are non-degenerate and therefore…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-06 Oleg Lychkovskiy , Sergei Blinnikov , Mikhail Vysotsky

We all know that in the dense anisotropic interior of the star, neutrino-neutrino forward-scattering can lead to fast collective neutrino oscillations, which has striking consequences on flavor dependent neutrino emission and can be crucial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-06 Soumya Bhattacharyya

Neutrinos propagating in dense neutrino media such as those in core-collapse supernovae can experience fast flavor conversions on scales much shorter than those expected in vacuum. It is believed that a necessary condition for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-22 Sajad Abbar

We present results of 3-neutrino flavor evolution simulations for the neutronization burst from an O-Ne-Mg core-collapse supernova. We find that nonlinear neutrino self-coupling engineers a single spectral feature of stepwise conversion in…

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

Charged-current neutrino processes such as $\nu_e + n \rightleftharpoons p + e^-$ and $\bar\nu_e + p \rightleftharpoons n + e^+$ destroy the flavor coherence among the weak-interaction states of a single neutrino and thus damp its flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-04 Zewei Xiong , Lucas Johns , Meng-Ru Wu , Huaiyu Duan

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 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

The upcoming galactic core-collapse supernova is expected to produce a considerable number of neutrino events within terrestrial detectors. By using Bayesian inference techniques, we address the feasibility of distinguishing among various…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-22 Sajad Abbar , Maria Cristina Volpe

In core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers, the neutrino density is so large that neutrino-neutrino refraction can lead to flavor conversion, if a zero-crossing is present in the neutrino flavor lepton number (FLN) angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-24 Pedro Dedin Neto , Irene Tamborra , Shashank Shalgar

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