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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

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…

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Neutrinos in core-collapse supernovae and neutron-star mergers are susceptible to flavor instabilities of three kinds: slow, fast, and collisional. Prior work has established mappings of the first two onto abstract mechanical systems in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-19 Lucas Johns , Santiago Rodriguez

Neutrinos propagating in a dense neutrino gas, such as those expected in core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and neutron star mergers (NSMs), can experience fast flavor conversions on relatively short scales. This can happen if the neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-17 Sajad Abbar

Predicting the flavor composition of neutrinos from supernovae is a challenging task, primarily due to the high neutrino densities at their core. In such an environment, neutrino self-interactions give rise to collective effects that have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-03 Antonio Capanema , Yago Porto , Maria Manuela Saez

The usual description of self-induced flavor conversions for neutrinos (\nu's) in supernovae is based on the simplified assumption that all the \nu's of the different species are emitted "half-isotropically" by a common neutrinosphere, in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Alessandro Mirizzi , Pasquale D. Serpico

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

We examine the effect of neutrino flavor transformation by the fast flavor instability (FFI) on long-term mass ejection from accretion disks formed after neutron star mergers. Neutrino emission and absorption in the disk set the composition…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 Rodrigo Fernández , Sherwood Richers , Nicole Mulyk , Steven Fahlman

Accurate neutrino transport is crucial for reliably modeling explosive astrophysical events like core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and neutron star mergers (NSMs). However, in these extremely neutrino-dense systems, flavor oscillations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-29 Lucas Johns , Sherwood Richers , Meng-Ru Wu

A dense neutrino medium such as that inside a core-collapse supernova can experience collective flavor conversion or oscillations because of the neutral-current weak interaction among the neutrinos. This phenomenon has been studied in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-20 Sajad Abbar , Huaiyu Duan

The impact of neutrino flavor conversion on the supernova mechanism is yet to be fully understood. We present multi-energy and multi-angle solutions of the neutrino quantum kinetic equations in three flavors, without employing any…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-15 Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

We investigate the neutrino flavor change effects due to neutrino self-interaction, shock wave propagation as well as matter effect on the neutrino-process of the core-collapsing supernova (CCSN). For the hydrodynamics, we use two models: a…

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

Neutrinos drive core-collapse supernovae, launch outflows from neutron star merger accretion disks, and set the ratio of protons to neutrons in ejecta from both systems that generate heavy elements in the universe. Neutrinos of different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-05 Sherwood Richers , Don E. Willcox , Nicole M. Ford , Andrew Myers

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

Neutrinos in dense environments like core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and neutron star mergers (NSMs) can undergo fast flavor conversions (FFCs) once the angular distribution of neutrino lepton number crosses zero along a certain direction.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-06 Sajad Abbar , Hiroki Nagakura

In environments with high dense neutrino gases, such as in core-collapse supernovae, the neutrinos can experience collective neutrino oscillation due to their self-interactions. In particular, fast flavor conversion driven by the crossings…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-01 Masamichi Zaizen , Taiki Morinaga

We revisit the flavor composition of neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae (SN), focusing on robust predictions that are insensitive to the poorly known dynamics of collective flavor conversion in the inner core. Assuming that the many…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-22 Antonio Capanema , Yago Porto , Maria Manuela Saez

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 oscillations in dense neutrino gases (flavor waves) are notable for their instabilities that cause fast flavor conversion. We develop a quantum theory of interacting neutrinos and flavor wave quanta, which are analogous to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-03 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Georg G. Raffelt