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We study post weak decoupling coherent active-sterile and active-active matter-enhanced neutrino flavor transformation in the early universe. We show that flavor conversion efficiency at Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein resonances is likely to…

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We perform three-dimensional supernova simulations with a phenomenological treatment of neutrino flavor conversions. We show that the explosion energy can increase to as high as ~10^51 erg depending on the critical density for the onset of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-05 Kanji Mori , Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake , Shunsaku Horiuchi

Subtle problems in the theory of neutrino oscillations in vacuum are discussed. It is shown that Lorentz invariance implies that in general flavor neutrinos in oscillation experiments are superpositions of massive neutrinos with different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Giunti

We derive analytic expressions for three flavor neutrino oscillations in the presence of matter in the plane wave approximation using the Cayley-Hamilton formalism. Especially, we calculate the time evolution operator in both flavor and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Tommy Ohlsson , Hakan Snellman

Neutrino propagation in space-time is not constrained to be unitary if very light states - lighter than the active neutrinos - exist into which neutrinos may decay. If this is the case, neutrino flavor-change is governed by a handful of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-13 Jeffrey M. Berryman , André de Gouvêa , Daniel Hernández , Roberto L. N. Oliveira

We investigate toy models for spatial and temporal instabilities in collective neutrino oscillations induced by neutrino self-interactions, with special emphasis on inhomogeneous systems with densities following a profile. Simulations are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-23 Guenter Sigl

We study the decoupling process of neutrinos in the early universe in the presence of three-flavour oscillations. The evolution of the neutrino spectra is found by solving the corresponding momentum-dependent kinetic equations for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-29 Pablo F. de Salas , Sergio Pastor

A neutrino subject to an external, time-dependent perturbing potential can be forced to make transitions between its flavor states. A neutrino with three (or more) flavors can exhibit phenomena that cannot occur if the neutrino had just…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-20 Y. Yang , J. P. Kneller , K. M. Perkins

A neutrino propagating through fluctuating matter can experience large amplitude transitions between its states. Such transitions occur in supernovae and compact object mergers due to turbulent matter profiles and neutrino…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Yue Yang , James P. Kneller

We consider the quantum magic in systems of dense neutrinos undergoing coherent flavor transformations, relevant for supernova and neutron-star binary mergers. Mapping the three-flavor-neutrino system to qutrits, the evolution of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Ivan Chernyshev , Caroline E. P. Robin , Martin J. Savage

Coherence, which represents the superposition of orthogonal states, is a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics and can also be precisely defined within quantum resource theory. Thus exploring quantum coherence in neutrino oscillations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-19 Ashutosh Kumar Alok , Trambak Jyoti Chall , Neetu Raj Singh Chundawat , Shireen Gangal , Gaetano Lambiase

Neutrino flavor oscillations are analyzed in the framework of Quantum Geometry model proposed by Caianiello. In particular, we analyze the consequences of the model for accelerated neutrino particles which experience an effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Bozza , S. Capozziello , G. Lambiase , G. Scarpetta

In the view of the quantum dynamic theory of measurement developed from the Hepp-Colemen (HC) model (K. Hepp, Hev.Phys.Acta, {\bf 45}, 237 (1972)), the quantum decoherence in neutrino flavor oscillation caused by an environment surrounding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. P. Sun , D. L. Zhou

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

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 investigate whether coherent flavor conversion of neutrinos in a neutrino background is substantially modified by many-body effects, with respect to the conventional one-particle effective description. We study the evolution of a system…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-27 Alexander Friedland , Cecilia Lunardini

Neutrino propagation in the Galactic and extragalactic magnetic fields is considered. We extend an approach developed in \cite{Popov:2019nkr} to describe neutrino flavour and spin oscillations using wave packets. The evolution equations for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-14 Artem Popov , Alexander Studenikin

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

In many theories of quantum gravity quantum fluctuations of spacetime may serve as an environment for decoherence. Here we study quantum-gravitational decoherence of high energy astrophysical neutrinos in the presence of fermionic dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-26 Dominik Hellmann , Heinrich Päs , Erika Rani

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…

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